Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

Ethan Hawke

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Gore Vidal

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Billy Corgan

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

Josh Radnor

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

King Abdullah II

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Friedrich von Schiller

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

Jean Baudrillard

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Edwin Louis Cole

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

Mary Balogh

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Ambrose Bierce