As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Sir Winston Churchill

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

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

Jane Austen

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Mark Twain

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger

Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them.

Stephen Richards

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Madeleine Albright

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason