There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Warren Buffett

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Jean Kerr

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Jacques Prevert

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Susan Powter

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.

Lewis H. Lapham

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

David Zucker