Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Charles E. Wilson

Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

Eric Hoffer

The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.

Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Ben Johnston

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Bruce Willis

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

Eric McCormack

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Wendy Cope

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

Tomas G. Masaryk

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Walt Disney