Samuel Pepys Quotes

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

Sometimes you pay a premium to get what you want.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

Some of us want the crown before the cross.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grapsed, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearnace as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.