Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Bishop Robert South

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Walter Pater

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

James Q. Wilson

Respect the gift and the giver.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

Peter Berg

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.

Patti Stanger

Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.

Orson Scott Card

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

Stephen Chow

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

James A. Worsham