The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

Robert J. Shiller

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Samuel Johnson

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Franz Kafka

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

David Schwimmer

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

Kevin James

A generous confession disarms slander.

Thomas Fuller

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

Seann William Scott

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Thomas Jefferson

Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.

Teresa Medeiros

We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.

Proverb

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Nathaniel Branden