No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence

Samuel Johnson

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

Kevin Mitnick

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Barack Obama

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Elbert Hubbard

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Livy

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Rachel Griffiths

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Martin Puryear

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Rabbi Hillel

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Karl Barth

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Leelee Sobieski

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Eric Hoffer