Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Simone Weil

Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

Source Unknown

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Marcus V. Pollio

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Stephen Szasz

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Laurie Anderson

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Jeffrey Sachs

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

Diablo Cody

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

Aldous Huxley

According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.

Joan Collins