One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

David Ogilvy

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samuel Johnson

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.

Robert Collier

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

Judge Learned Hand, Memorial ser

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Jonathan Swift

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a mans.

C.S. Lewis

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship

Samuel Johnson

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Brian Eno

Now, Maria, if a boy doesn't like you, I would just like you to know that he is intimidated by your beauty, because you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world and if you would stop doing impersonations of me I think other people would see that...

Maria Bamford

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

Tim Ryan

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

David Frum