The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

All the worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern.

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.

When the bee comes to your house let her have beer you may want to visit the bees house some day.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.

I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet of the Apes,' so I wanted there to be this hope of connection as well as this inexorable pull towards what we know the series becomes.

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

Don't ever say you're not good enough. If that person can't see how amazing you are then they are the one who's not good enough.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

When you're an actor, you often feel victimized - you see the end result, 'Oh, they didn't use this take; they didn't use that take. How come?' There's no 'How come?' with the director. There's only one person to look at. Walk over to the mirror if you want to know why. But I prefer that.

There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?'