People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Barry Mann

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

Matthew Lesko

God helps them that help themselves.

Proverb

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Shirley MacLaine

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

Matthew Good

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Voltaire