The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.

Dudley Nichols

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

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The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

Kim Harrison

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

Paul O'Grady

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

George Whitefield

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Darius Ogden Mills

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Marilyn Monroe