I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Leo Burnett

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

Steve Backley

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

George Santayana

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Jean Chretien

The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.

Michael Wickett

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Ellen Glasgow

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

Larry McMurtry

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Jesus Christ

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Bruce Barton