Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Thomas Nash

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katherine Hathaway

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

George H. W. Bush

When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason and calculation, by presenting to the being so unhappily conformed, other motives to do good and to eschew evil, such as the love, or the hatred, or the rejection of those among whom he lives, and whose society is necessary to his happiness and even existence; demonstrations by sound calculation that honesty promotes interest in the long run; the rewards and penalties established by the laws; and ultimately the prospects of a future state of retribution for the evil as well as the good done while here. These are the correctives which are supplied by education, and which exercise the functions of the moralist, the preacher, and legislator; and they lead into a course of correct action all those whose depravity is not too profound to be eradicated.

Thomas Jefferson, to Thomas Law,

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

John Webster

My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Peter Wastholm

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

Jack Dee

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt