What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Jaclyn Smith

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Phoebe Cary

Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?

Blaise Pascal

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Irving Babbitt

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Agnes Repplier

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

William Shatner

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Don Marquis

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world

Samuel Johnson

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Joel Coen

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Lee Child

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts

Aristotle