There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Jonah Hill

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

Cassandra Clare

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fo

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Oliver Goldsmith

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Jerry Saltz

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Meryl Streep

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace