People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Carlos Santana

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

Jude Morgan

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

John Cornyn

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

William Shakespeare

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

David Fincher

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

Judy Blume

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White