Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. More W. C. Fields
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. More Maxwell Maltz
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. More Samuel Johnson
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. More Michel de Montaigne
Choose an author as you choose a friend. More Sir Christopher Wren
You want to work with people who are excited about doing the show. I didn't get the sense that she wanted to do it just because I was involved in it. She just really liked the script, and I responded to that. More Chris Rock
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. More Thomas Hardy
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. More Rosenstock Huessy
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. More Horace
A faithful friend is the medicine of life. More Apocrypha Apocrypha
Fear is what kills us. More unknown unknown
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away. More Harold S. Geneen
One joy scatters a hundred grieves. More Chinese Proverb
I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. More Dennis Quaid
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: You're going to forget your lines. More Alan Rickman
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. More George Eliot
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. More Kenneth Baker
Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, telling me their stories of having stumbled into my book and taking it to heart, to soul, and recovering from their illness. Amazing stories of recovery. More Dirk Benedict
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. More Kingsley Amis