Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

James Thurber

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Tim Roth

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Ian Mcewan

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up.

T.A

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

James A. Michener

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Margaret Spellings

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Dean Koontz