My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Beauty is a matter of finding the right address.

Apol Lejano-Massebieau

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Edward Koch

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Bob Woodward

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Cher

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Julius Boros

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

Mary Baker Eddy

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

Kamisese Mara

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love

Ricardo Piglia