A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

All the world loves a good loser.

Kin Hubbard

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

Michael J. Mccarthy

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Christian Bale

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Paul Reiser

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

My wife had her drivers test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

Rodney Dangerfield

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

G. K. Chesterton

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

James Denton

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Julie Burchill

Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'

John Podhoretz