Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Al Lopez

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Ralph Fiennes

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Bodhidharma

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Sam Rayburn

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

Beverly Cleary

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Aldous Huxley

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

Katie Couric

I can hear the clock ticking, but I can never find the time.

JJ Sereday

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Jeanne Calment