You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Lord Burleigh

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

Ricky Skaggs

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Wallace Stevens

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Sergei Bubka

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Marianne Moore

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short.

Mickey Rooney

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Henry James