Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Lord Chesterfield

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Elle Macpherson

The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway.

Ruth Ann Nordin

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

David O. Russell

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Marg

There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

Gerald R. Ford

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Ferdinand Marcos

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Bill Keller

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

C. E. Montague

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

Martin Freeman