True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

W. C. Fields

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Stephen Covey

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Donald Johanson

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jesse Jackson

You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Gary Barlow

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Faith Evans

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Richard Branson

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

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