It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.

William Shakespeare

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

Howard Stern

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

Ernest Hemingway

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

David Mamet

As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, Working for the King of Prussia.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Joseph Ernst Renan

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Robert Collier

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

Maximilian Schell

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner