I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

William James

I don't see music as working.

Tori Amos

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Paul Brown

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

Albert A. Grant

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Robert Casey

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

So Marigold, my love, you've had too much to drink

Tomas Kalnoky

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

Monica Seles

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Barbara Bush