I made my money by selling too soon.

Let the dream go. Are there not other dreamsIn vastness of clouds hid from thy sightThat yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,And shoot the shadows through and through with light?What matters one lost vision of the night?Let the dream go! ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Let Them Go

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Antony Sher

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.

Leo Tolstoy

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Ilka Chase

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Christie Brinkley

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Leo Tolstoy

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

Albert Einstein

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

G. W. F. Hegel

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young