You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

Gus Van Sant

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

P. J. O'Rourke

An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.

R. V. G. Tasker

Znala je, klice svojih uspona i padova nosimo u sebi. Prekrivamo ih odje?om i pokretima, ali katkad, kada se zaustavi vr?eme, trenutak odaje ono kakvi jesmo i kakvi ?emo biti.

Jasna Horvat

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjold

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Jodi Picoult

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

William Hazlitt

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Gilbert Highet

[from ]In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees.

Leo Tolstoy