Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Jackie Chan

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Scott Weiland

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Madame de Girardin

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Henry L. Doherty

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.

Albert Schweitzer

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Thomas Carlyle

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

John Rowland

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Napoleon Bonaparte