You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Woodrow Wilson

Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.

Proverb

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Horace Traubel

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien de la Mettrie, The Human

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Bill Vaughan

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Ella Maillart

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Robert Sternberg

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Norman Jewison

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy