Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Sam Sheppard

Your divine sagacity is your life's status symbol.

Ogwo David Emenike

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

Lionel Richie

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Ambrose Bierce

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Mitch Hedberg

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Ralph Inge

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

George A. Smith

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Louis C. K.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Henry Kravis