I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Mike Krzyzewski

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Rupert Murdoch

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.

Sir Walter Scott

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Peter Agre

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Lawrence Welk

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

Tony Hancock

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Neil Gaiman