A lazy thief is better than a lazy servant.
Better to sell with regret than to keep with regret.
Better a stupid wife than a mess at home.
One hundred alcoholics are better than one gambler.
Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.
The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you become greater and more competent, you will naturally gravitate into better circumstances. In this connection, we should remember ...
The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Sonderbarerweise sprechen wir oft davon, aber es ist gerade [grenzenloses Empfinden], was wir lebenslang vermeiden.
... ohne den Menschen etwas vorschreiben zu dürfen, würde die Moral gar kein Vergnügen bereiten.
He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)
Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.
Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.
There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
