A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Billy Joel

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Henry Fielding

In this worldlove has no coloryet how deeply my bodyis stained by yours.

Izumi Shikibu

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough . . .

Gail Sheehy

Courage is always rewarded.

Kenny Loggins

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Willie Mays

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

John Ruskin

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

Walter Bagehot

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Susan Sontag

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone.

Edward R. Murrow, News Summaries