I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Alfred Hitchcock

Fear attracts attack.

Edwin Louis Cole

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Norah Jones

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

George Eliot

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.

Madeline Bridges

When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.

William Shakespeare

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Plato

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Friedrich von Schiller

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

George Carlin