“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanation over and over.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings; The plaudits of the crowd Are but the clatter of feet At midnight in the street, Hollow and restless and loud.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“From this period, which runs like a ridgeline between my middle years and my true adulthood, I learned the great lesson of business: If you can find something you love, keep doing it.”— Jerry Weintraub, amazon.com
“To everyman upon this earth Death cometh soon or late: And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers and the temptress of his gods?”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, amazon.com
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.”— Cyril, amazon.com
“Tranquility of the soul is wonderful, as is joyful peace of mind. If only, dear friend, these precious treasures, beautiful and priceless as they are, were not so fragile too.”— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com
“Poor fool! Imagining everything to be so small, because you are yourself so small.”— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com
“Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.”— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com
“The Master sees times as they are without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way and resides at the center of the circle.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“When people die you have to bury them but you do not have to write about it. You do not have to write about an undertake nor all the business of burial. You do not have to write about that day nor the next night of the day after and the night after, and the progress from numbness into sorrow nor all…”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“There's something about a young man that makes him want to die and die well, whilst still at the height of life, whilst still not tired of it.”— Louis de Bernieres, amazon.com
“If asked my philosophy, it would simply be this: savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much. Or as the old timers say 'Enjoy.' But as I said, I could never live by this philosophy.”— Jerry Weintraub, Rich Cohen, amazon.com
“An idea is only crazy after all, until someone pulls it off.”— Jerry Weintraub, Rich Cohen, amazon.com
“Jerry Weintraub went to take a ballet class with Martin Graham. James Caan was with him. When it came time to put on the tights he couldn't. That's why James Caan was in The Godfather and Jerry was only a producer.”— Jerry Weintraub, Rich Cohen, amazon.com
“I was always embarrassed by words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred,…”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com