Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
Health consists with temperance alone.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
