Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why is it an either or question? the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.

The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Gracie Allen

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Charles Kingsley

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

Virginia Woolf

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Hannah More

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Denzel Washington

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Ann Landers