I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae like a witch's brew.
The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
I'm a parent especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich that's what you dip into.
Hidden nature is secret God.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Secretly I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix but I could never quite pull it off.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.