Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

General Robert E. Lee, letter to

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Amy Winehouse

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

Chuck Close

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Fred A. Allen

The worst men often give the best advice.

Francis Bacon

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.

I Ching

And nothing is, but what is not.

William Shakespeare

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat

Robert Collier

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Rod Stewart