The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.

I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as anyone else.

Brett Favre

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Marco Rubio

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

David Foster Wallace

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

Lysander Spooner

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Samuel Johnson

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Tom Waits

We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves

Mark Twain

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

Hale Irwin

Screw your courage to the sticking-place

William Shakespeare