It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Francis Bacon

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Ann Curry

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

What most people don't know is all the good things that the coach did without anybody knowing. For instance, he would grab up a couple of us players and go to the burn unit at Children's Hospital. He was always doing things like that and didn't want any publicity about it.

Archie Griffin, (remembering coa

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Patricia Cornwell

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Zig Ziglar

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

John Wooden

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Jean Kerr

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

Christo