The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Oakley Hall

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

Rocky Marciano

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

Mary Pierce

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

Edmond de Goncourt

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Seamus Heaney

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Cesar Ritz

Life without decency is unbearable.

Albert Nobbs

You only have one day at a time to live, so live it and choose well!

Laura Boniello

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Abraham Lincoln