The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Drinking is a way of ending the day

Ernest Hemingway

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

Glenn Beck

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

Natalie Gulbis

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Swami Vivekananda

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

Mireille Enos

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Michel de Montaigne

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Meryl Streep

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Matthew McConaughey