I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Helen Rowland

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Johann von Goethe

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

Eliot Spitzer

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Juvenal

A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hell And bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

Wallace Stevens

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Orlando A. Battista

Official truths are often powerful illusions

John Pilger

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dave Del Dotto