If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Herman Melville

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

Jon Secada

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

Source Unknown

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Andreas Capellanus

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Dejan Stojanovic

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Samuel L. Jackson

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Hoffer

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Dalai Lama

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Erwin Chargaff

Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness

Bertrand Russell