Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Mark Twain

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it?Variant translation: I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Robert Mueller

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

Paul Kane

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Ray Floyd

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

Mary Crosby

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

David Gerrold

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Warren Buffett

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Harold S. Geneen

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Richard Gere

It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Jane Fonda