Love is trembling happiness.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Hannah More

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

William Feather

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Lord Longford

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Ezra Pound

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

Plato

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

Brad Pitt

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

Jillian Bach