Learn to obey before you command.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Learn to obey before you command.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

In all things that you do consider the end.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Pride is the problem, humility is the answer.

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg.