The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

Al Pacino

'Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.'

Michael Jackson

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Tacitus

Here is the same clock that walked quietly Through those enormous years I half recall,When between one blue summer and anotherTime seemed as many miles as round the world,And world a day, a moment or a mile,Or a sweet slope of grass edged with the sea,Or a new song to sing, or a tree dressed in gold

Judith Wright, The Moving Image,

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Edie Sedgwick

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Oscar Wilde

The work will stand, no matter what.

Meryl Streep

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Bishop Robert South

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau