There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Franz Werfel

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Steven Seagal

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says,

Bill Cosby

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

William Shakespeare

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

Yesterday I parked my car in a towaway zone...when I came back the entire area was missing.

Steven Wright

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Mark Cuban

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert Schweitzer

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

Joe Pesci

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Elizabeth Olsen