Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Norman Cousins

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Soren Kierkegaard

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

James Broughton

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Italian Proverb

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Henry David Thoreau

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Michael Jordan

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

I have a fear of failure.

Joe Montana

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Utada Hikaru

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Al McGuire

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

Anthony Robbins

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone