Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Clint Eastwood

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Thomas Fuller

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Janine Turner

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Ruth Rendell

If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

Clive Owen

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

Jane Austen

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Ray Charles

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Friedrich von Schiller

You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

James Branch Cabell

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Fred Allen