What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, ‘People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea’.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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.
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.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
I cant understand these guys who just have to have your autograph. I asked one of them What do you do when you get home, take it out and look at it?
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.
Sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noise. Tired of all these cameras flashing, sick of being poised.
I don’t like recording studios – except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that’s not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it’s a power – not being yourself, and being in the role; it’s just like another prop.
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
