Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Norman Rockwell

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
Ani DiFranco

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
Carlos Santana

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre

Hidden nature is secret God.
Sri Aurobindo

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
Jane Rule

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole

We've discovered the secret of life.
Francis Crick

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
Helen Rowland

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyere

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
Nana Mouskouri