But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.