The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Samuel Johnson

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Thomas More

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

All promise outruns performance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

Ayelet Waldman

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Patton Oswalt

I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.

Brooke Burke

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roethke

Taste is tiring like good company.

Francis Picabia

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

Abraham Lincoln