Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.

Jane Austen

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Søren Kierkegaard

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time

William Shakespeare

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Henry David Thoreau

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Marco Rubio

Earn your leadership every day.

Michael Jordan

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Melissa Rosenberg

I don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Patti Smith

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain