To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Dhammapada

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Fran Lebowitz

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

Roger Moore

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Wilhelm Reich

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

David Strathairn

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.

Adolph Harnack

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Frank Sinatra

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Mahatma Gandhi