Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara Tuchman

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Akhenaton

Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

Anon.

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.

Michael Rosenbaum

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Guy Pearce

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Vaclav Havel

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Anon.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Yogi Berra

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Ben Barnes