It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

Samuel Johnson

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Harold S. Geneen

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Vladimir Nabokov

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

Beverley Mitchell

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Charles Dickens

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Ayn Rand

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

You have a life; make a success of it.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Henry David Thoreau