When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

I like movies I can relate to.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

I always wanted to make movies.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

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.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

I've always wanted to make movies.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I want to make timeless movies.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

All I do is go to the movies.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

I like the good feeling movies.

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I do enjoy animated movies.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I like four-hour movies.

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I just love movies.

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Movies are different from real life.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

I love going to movies.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.;Channing Tatum;movies 49655;In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.;Channing Tatum;movies 49656;I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.

I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

I'm a fan of action movies.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

I'm scared of scary movies.

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

I think I made good movies.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus they're not dead.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies I want guys to come, too!

Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.;Kellan Lutz;movies 49780;Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.;Jane Seymour;movies 49781;I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.;Jane Seymour;movies 49782;You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49783;The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49784;The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49785;I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49786;I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49787;I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49788;I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49789;I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.;Lawrence Kasdan;movies 49790;For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.;Michelle Williams;movies 49791;I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.;Alexander Payne;movies 49792;Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.;Alexander Payne;movies 49793;The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you're doing movies and stuff, you're a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, 'Sherri, you said what I feel.' That just means so much to me to know that I have that support.

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

I like high impact movies.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.;Greg Kinnear;movies 49823;I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.;Fiona Shaw;movies 49824;Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.;Richard Russo;movies 49825;I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.;Jennifer Hudson;movies 49826;For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.;Kevin James;movies 49827;I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.;Kevin James;movies 49828;I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.;Whoopi Goldberg;movies 49829;I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.;Lee Child;movies 49830;One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.;Steven Seagal;movies 49831;People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.;Robert Carlyle;movies 49832;I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.;Victoria Justice;movies 49833;I don't direct movies for a living.;Tommy Lee Jones;movies 49834;I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!;Abbas Kiarostami;movies 49835;I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.;Tommy Lee Jones;movies 49836;Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.;Abbas Kiarostami;movies 49837;I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!;Tommy Lee Jones;movies 49838;I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.;Tommy Lee Jones;movies 49839;I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.;Taylor Lautner;movies 49840;It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?;Taylor Lautner;movies 49841;It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.;Kevin Smith;movies 49842;You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.;Kevin Smith;movies 49843;So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.;Kevin Smith;movies 49844;I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.;Kevin Smith;movies 49845;In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.;Kevin Smith;movies 49846;Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.;Kevin Smith;movies 49847;I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.;Kevin Bacon;movies 49848;I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.;Kevin Bacon;movies 49849;I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.;Kevin Bacon;movies 49850;Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.;Quincy Jones;movies 49851;I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.;Seth Rogen;movies 49852;Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.;Seth Rogen;movies 49853;I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.;Seth Rogen;movies 49854;I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.;Seth Rogen;movies 49855;I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.;Seth Rogen;movies 49856;Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.;Seth Rogen;movies 49857;Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.;Robert Rodriguez;movies 49858;I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.;Robert Rodriguez;movies 49859;I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.;Robert Rodriguez;movies 49860;I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.;Robert Rodriguez;movies 49861;It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.;Ethan Hawke;movies 49862;If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.;Ethan Hawke;movies 49863;Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.;Ethan Hawke;movies 49864;I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.;Ethan Hawke;movies 49865;If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.;Ethan Hawke;movies 49866;I don't want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.;Pedro Almodovar;movies 49867;Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.;Denis Leary;movies 49868;For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.;Lynda Barry;movies 49869;I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.;Joss Whedon;movies 49870;We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.;Emmanuelle Beart;movies 49871;I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.;Emmanuelle Beart;movies 49872;I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I love it, man I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

I like movies about failing.

Movies are an expensive business.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

Movies are movies, television is television.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

I manage to hide in my movies.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leav

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Though one sits in meditation in a particular place, the Self in him can exercise its influence far away. Though still, it moves everywhere...The Self cannot be known by anyone who desists not from unrighteous ways, controls not his senses, stills not his mind, and practices not meditation.

That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.

If the thoughts are absolutely tranquil the heavenly heart can be seen. The heavenly heart lies between sun and moon (i.e. between the two eyes). It is the home of the inner light. To make light circulate is the deepest and most wonderful secret. The light is easy to move, but difficult to fix. If it is made to circulate long enought, then it crystallizes itself; that is the natural spirit body...

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.

Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

In Fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Every soul is subject to the trial of Transmigration...An individual does not know that he is called for assessment before entering this World as well as after leaving it. He does not know how many transformations and esoteric trials he has to pass through...and that souls revolve like a stone shot from a sling.

All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release...Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.

To understand a holy unity, examine the flame rising from a candle. We see at first two kinds of light, one glistening white and one blue or black. The white light is above and rises in a straight line, the blue or black light is beneath and appears to be the source of the white; yet the two lights are so closely united they form one single flame. But the source formed by the blue or black light is, in turn, attached to the wick under it. The white light never changes, it always remains white; but several shades are distinguishable in the lower light. Moreover, the lower light moves in two opposite directions; above, it is connected to the white light, and below, it is attached to the burning matter; this matter continually consumes itself and rises toward the upper light. It is thus that all that is, reunites with the one unity.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

When you doubt, abstain.

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodes ... assumptions about the nature of our reality, the ?pattern? in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.

Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

Kindness is a language the dumb canspeak and the deaf can hear and understand.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

Love is a great beautifier.

Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Whoso loves Believes the impossible.

If thou must love me, let it be for nought<

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Love is energy of life.

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn?t it?

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.

If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very very few people die past the age of a hundred.

I'm at that age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Think, and be careful what thou art within; For there is sin in the desire of sin; Think, and be thankful, in a different case; For there is grace in the desire of grace.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vi

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.

O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!

The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

Follow Your Bliss.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache."

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One?s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

They smell, they snarl and they scratch; they have a singular aptitude for shredding rugs, drapes and upholstery; they're sneaky, selfish and not at all smart; they are disloyal, condescending and totally useless in any rodent free environment.

Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit is feathered often times with heavenly words, and, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, "Keep tomorrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star.

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkeness or as good as drink.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one?s conduct.

Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears.

Good words by the third time will even bore the dogs.

Never discuss public business while drinking.

Public business should be conducted publicly.

Business is thirty percent patience.

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. If I'm awake, never let me sleep.

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer...it sings because it has a song.

The nail that sticks out must be hammered down.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is but half way.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.

Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years

The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.

Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.

...Insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Religions change; Beer and Wine remain.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

Nature abhors annihilation.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by thelove of glory.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

A dream is a wish your heart makes - When you're fast asleep.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.

Precaution is better than cure.

Life is but thought.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Pleasure is to Women what the Sun is to the Flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, etiolates, and destroys.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

Never ask a bore a question.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.

The business of America is business.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; He who defers his work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay; Till the whole stream which stopped him should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."

Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever; Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible thin

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

This is perhaps the most distinctive Buddhist teaching, that suffering is the product of 'the craving of the passions, the craving for existence, the craving fornonexistence.' It is, however, far from an obvious truth. Certain cases of suffering areplainly due to craving, namely, those that are due to frustrated desires. Desires may be eased by satisfaction or extirpation; and one may allow that if one stopped desiring, itwould amount to preventing all the suffering due to frustration. But this does not provethe general case.... Body, feelings, perception, mentality, and consciousness are separate sets of graspings. There is nothing that -does- the grasping. -We- are the aggregate ofthe graspings, not something, apart from them, that does the grasping. This is an interesting and startling thought.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be?not understood, but divined.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we areonly sitting on our own bottom.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?

Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented. Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level.

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Independent self people (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be defined by their associations.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

If you can DREAM

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.

In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

There is moderation even in excess.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Success is the child of audacity.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

You are young at any age if you're planning for tomorrow.

Aging is bad, but consider the alternative.

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.

I change, and so do women too;<

So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...

It's amazing what God can do with a broken heart when given all the pieces.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Behind every successful man stands an amazed woman.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.

No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as ifa promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

If you become a success, you don't change everyone else does.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Dancing is the poetry of the feet.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

And plenty makes us poor.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Character is who you are when no one but GOD is looking.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Business? it?s quite simple: it?s other people?s money.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Nothing succeeds like success.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Education is a series of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.

If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

In a minute there is time<

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis,vanish, - all duties even.

America is another name for opportunity.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

To fill the hour - that is happiness.

A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

To finish the moment, to find the journey?s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

All mankind loves a lover.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Less good from genius we may find than that from perseverance flowing; so have good grist at hand to grind, and keep the mill a-going.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Our life is what our thoughts make it

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Support organizations can always prove success by showing service to someone ... not necessarily you.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. (2 Esdras, 14:25)

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Seers and soothsayers read crystal balls to find the future. Less lucky men read junk with more success.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass...

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.

A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.

I know I'm going to get old and be one of those crazy women who sits on balconies and spits on people and screams, 'Get a haircut!' I know this, and I don't really fear it. I'd just like to move toward it with as much grace and dignity as possible.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better.

Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood?namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Well done is better than well said.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

The goal of all life is death.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

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Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

The scalded cat fears even cold water.

Business is the salt of life.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Great hopes make great men.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window oftheir automobiles.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married- then he's finished.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded.... However, they are indispensable when you don?t want to do anything.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Doubt is the father of invention.

To quote is to think, to think is to learn, to learn is to live.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

(The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole artillery of her charms.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Let the wind of the spirit blow between your shores. The great oaks in the forest do not grow in each other's shade.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

We tend to see our own experiences as the normal process, so we are often amazed that anyone could have taken a different path. But when we do meet up, it's always fascinating to compare notes about the different ways to get there.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or utopian.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

All change is not growth; all movementis not forward.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.

Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Man errs as long as he strives.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

On every mountain height is rest.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ?the world?; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ?the world?; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Avarice, sphincter of the heart.

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitima

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don?t do business with.... I can?t do business with you.

The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest.

To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and "consciousness" cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and "will" cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen."

Business is, emphatically, the amusement of Americans, and, to be in keeping with their character, every thing written for their amusement should partake of the useful.

From the fact there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he concluded that the Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet that would support life.

I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every part about us; and I believe the story of Argu simplies no more, than the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated, were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer.

Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gosp

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil!

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roo

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

You can?t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

God will forgive me. It's his profession.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

One cat just leads to another.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.

Give me Liberty or give me death!

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I?m past that age.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Everything flows; nothing remains.

Change alone is unchanging.

Character is destiny.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar

Valor that parleys is near yielding.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings.

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick h

Excessive Humility is a sign of a scoundrel.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

The tempest uproots not the soft grasses that bow low on all sides; on the lofty trees it strikes hard. It is against the mighty that the mighty puts forth his prowess.

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

From covetousness anger proceeds; from covetousness lust is born; from covetousness come delusion and perdition. Covetousness is the cause of sin.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Rough work, iconoclasm, - but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Ambition: The glorious frailty of the noble mind.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

The man who knows it can?t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's avaluable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Friends are thieves of time.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Never have partners.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars?all the beauties of creation.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Liberation is not deliverance.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

There ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexibl eof passions.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscop

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Surely every human being ought to attain to the dignity of the unit. Surely it is worth while to be one, and to feel that the census of the universe would be incomplete without counting you. Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and all depths; that there are no walls or fences, or prohibited places, or sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought; that your intellect owes no allegiance to any being, human or divine; that you hold all in fee, and upon no condition, and by no tenure, whatsoever; that in the world of mind you are relieved from all personal dictation, and from the ignorant tyranny of majorities. Surely it is worth something to feel that there are no priests, no popes, no parties, no governments, no kings, no gods, to whom your intellect can be compelled to pay a reluctant homage. Surely it is a joy to know that all the cruel ingenuity of bigotry can devise no prison, no dungeon, no cell in which for one instant to confine a thought; that ideas cannot be dislocated by racks, nor crushed in iron boots, nor burned with fire. Surely it is sublime to think that the brain is a castle, and that within its curious bastions and winding halls the soul, in spite of all worlds and all beings, is the supreme sovereign of itself.

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It takes time to build a castle

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smil

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

One man with courage makes a majority.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

I have sworn upon the altar of G

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

The beautiful are never desolate, but someone always loves them.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

We have seen too much success to have become obsessed with failure.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.

The first years of man make provision for the last.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

We grow small trying to be great.

Stability is more essential to success than brilliance.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn?t.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

I am a printer, and a printer of news; ... I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Kindness consists of loving people more than they deserve.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have o

The brave man is not he who feels nofear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Conformity is the enemy of thought and the jailer of freedom.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitides and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution whichaims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.

Cunning leads to knavery. - It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. - Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man?s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest- never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

The best man in his dwelling loves the earth. In his heart, he loves what is profound. In his associations, he loves humanity. In his words, he loves faithfulness. In government, he loves order. In handling affairs, he loves competence. In his activities, he loves timeliness. It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach.

The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties!

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

He who knows does not speak; He who speaks does not know. He who is truthful is not showy; He who is showy is not truthful. He who is virtuous does not dispute; He who disputes is not virtuous. He who is learned is not wise; He who is wise is not learned. Therefore the sage does not display his own merits.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained...

The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. It is not anxious about things and yet is plans well. Heaven's net is indeed vast. Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Be a good animal. True to your extincts.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success. On the other hand, don't count on it.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.

You?re a business idea in the shape of a man.

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant... I want to be Cary Grant.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Beauty: it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and it you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you ha

...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

It?s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we mustrise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Peace will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have to be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its missi

Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced..."the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunction: You Must Adjust.

The four stages of man are: Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence and obsolescence.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing

All wealth is the product of labor.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

By the data to date, there i sonly one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax the man behind the tree!

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they?re doing pretty well, all things considered.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. (Yoda, Star Wars)

Success is that old ABC

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...The riders contend for its possession.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

I do not know the dignity of his birth, but I do know the glory of his death.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.

A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the leadin the introduction of a new order to things.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.

Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when they succeed.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life?to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

I choose to risk my significance to live so that which came to me as see goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

An honest man is always a child.

There's someone out there for everyone-even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them. (L.A. Story)

Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it.

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Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty many a tower which when it frown'd with all its battlements, was only terrible.

If at first you don't succeed, blame it on the teach

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a common place mind.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt everyday.

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survive at all in the face of social change.

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engi

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdo

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely gi

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; there in they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber stamps.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.

The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to woman and the first it takes away.

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The worst part of having success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing 'what nobody does,' or of not doing 'what everybody does,' is...in peril of a commission de lunatico.

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate who they are accustomed to look down upon.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

It?s a sad truth that everyone is a bore to someone.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

You sparkle with larceny.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

One may be humble out of pride.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

My trade and art is to live.

As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast.

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

... high salaries equals happiness equals project success.

Old age is life's parody.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success.

But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread.

There?s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and self transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art.

Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for more assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.

Although a cloth be washed a hundred times, how can it be rendered clean and pure if it be washed in water which is dirty?

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spiSrit.

Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

But that's what being an artist is

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do and crosswise to our purposes? For love to bridge these opposites through joy it must not eliminate or deny them.?Even self-love presupposes an irreconcilable duality (or multiplicity) in a single person.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Success has always been a great liar.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The lesson that most of us o

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nat

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

I think there?s a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Each person has the right to take part in the management of public affairs in his country, provided he has prior experience, a will to succeed, a college degree, influential parents, good looks, a resume, two 3X4 snapshots, and a good tax record.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,?if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes men from animals.

Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense....

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it?by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.

Ducking for apples; change one letter and it's the story of my life.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".

Success is being nothing but a quote.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction?s path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty? / Which draws us together.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

The amount of success is in inverse proportion to the effort in attaining success.

Success is the result of behavior that completely contradicts the usual expectations about the behavior of a successful person.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortun

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The difficulty about a gentlemen?s agreement is that it depends on the continued existence of the gentlemen

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her tra

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Time is the wisest counsellor.

The drowning man is not troubled by ra

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

What is thought? It is not Matter, nor Spirit. It is not a Thing; but a Power and Force. I make upon a paper certain conventional marks, that represent that Thought. There is no Power or Virtue in the marks I write, but only in the Thought which they tell to others. I die, but the Thought still lives. It is a Power. The fact that Thought continues to exist an instant, after it makes its appearance in the soul, proves it immortal: for there is nothing conceivable that can destroy it. The spoken words, being mere sounds, may vanish into thin air, and the written ones,mere marks, be burned, erased, destroyed: but the THOUGHT itself lives still, and must live on forever.

The Universe, which is the uttered Word of God, is infinite in extent. There is no empty space beyond creation on any side. The Universe, which is the Thought of God pronounced,never was not, since God never was inert; nor was, without thinking and creating. The forms of creation change, the suns and worlds live and die like the leaves and the insects, but the Universe itself is infinite and eternal, because God Is, Was, and Will forever Be, and never did not think and create.

The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Men are great or small in stature as it pleases God. But their nature is great or small as it pleases themselves. Men are not born, some with great souls and some with little souls. One by taking thought cannot add to his stature, but he can enlarge his soul. By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pygmy.

Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.

Success is overrated. Incompetence is what we should revere it marks us off from animals.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one?s decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one?s own true gifts. It involves thinking about one?s environment and deciding what one will and won?t accept.

Family lore can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it on for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

Each generation?s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation?s system of values for a new age.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust l

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Conquered, we conquer.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Philosophy is the art of living.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Speed is good only when wisdom leads the way. The end of this journey, whether to the high horizons of hope or the depths of destruction, will be determined by the collective wisdom of the people who live on this shrinking planet.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

There are three ways a man can be ruined: women,gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.

A bee is not a busier animal than a blockhe

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Health consists with temperance alone.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will havefulfilled our potential and performed well.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

The woman cries before the wedding, the man after.

The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we?re selling this deadly stuff anyway?

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey?s fits and starts, rehearses life?s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I?And if not now, when?

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

Misery loves company.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.

The actor can be compared to the soldier. The former dazzled by his triumphs, sighs continually for the struggles of stage- life; the latter filled with the glory he has acquired on the battlefield, cannot resign himself to peace.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

I was born in 1962. True. And the room next to me was 1963.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

I never met a man I didn't like.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success.

The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo)

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to kn

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

There?s no business like show business.

Success is one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

No bounds his head long, vast ambition knows.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT's All A Miracle.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Change is one thing, progress is another. ?Change? is scientific, ?progress? is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace...On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure.

One approaches the journey?s end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits. And necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for. (Dead Poet's Society)

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Humankind has not woven the web of life.<

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

Syllables govern the world.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck du

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

If you wished to be loved, love.