As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Diane Cilento

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Beyonce Knowles

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

Paulo Coelho

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

Martina Hingis

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.

Proverb

One year they asked me to be poster boy for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer