At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Peter Gallagher

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Heraclitus

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Tabitha Soren

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

Leo Tolstoy

Patch grief with proverbs.

William Shakespeare

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke