That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Cousin Woodman

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude LeviStrauss

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Ernest Hemingway

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guiz

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

Elizabeth Fishel

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

Richard Russo

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Howard Whitman