If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

Tom Snyder

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Victor Hugo

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.

Anna Godbersen

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Srully Blotnick

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Tommy Chong

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

David Byrne

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Sparky Anderson

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

Robert M. Pirsig

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Jeff Bridges

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes