Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac Disraeli

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Katharine Whitehorn

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Bruce Dern

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Warren Bennis

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

Jeffrey Sachs

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Marcus Aurelius

The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

Birdy

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde