I'm not smart enough to lie

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Tia Carrere

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Laura Linney

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Aldous Huxley

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Edward W. Howe

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Harold S. Geneen

Each is responsible for his own actions.

H. L. Hunt