Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Condon

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

George Sheehan

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Lord Chesterfield

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

John Cusack

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Dale Carnegie

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Miriam Makeba

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Li

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Johann von Goethe

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.

Brandon Boyd

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

Darren L Johnson

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King Jr.