Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Joseph Bayly

An actor is only merchandise.

Chow YunFat

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

John le Carre

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Edmond de Goncourt

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Isaac Watts

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth.

John Soos

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

Shvetashvatara Upanishad

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

George Best

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Margaret Mead

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Samuel Butler

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

George J. Mitchell