Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Ben Stein

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

William Scranton

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Napoleon Hill

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Courteney Cox

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

Ernest Hemingway

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

John Irving

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Phyllis Bottome