"The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started."

“A career is a job that has gone on too long.”

“I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.”

“Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?”

“I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.”

“If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.”

“I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.”

Source : "Your product sucks" by Tristan Louis, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.”

“Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.”