I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

Kevin Eubanks

I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth.

Toba Beta

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

George Bernard Shaw

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Aesop

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

Peter Mullan

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Dale Earnhardt

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Desiderius Erasmus