A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.

J. Paul Getty

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Robertson Davies

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination

Andre Gide

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Idris Elba

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

Alan Hirsch

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Chauncey Depew

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

Werner Erhard

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Jim Barksdale