John Wayne

Never say sorry - it's a sign of weakness
- John Wayne

Katharine Hepburn

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
- Katharine Hepburn

Dorothea Brande

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Dorothea Brande

Albert Schweitzer

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
- Albert Schweitzer

Peter Drucker

"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
- Peter Drucker

Irv Kupcinet

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet

Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus

Virgil Thomson

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
- Virgil Thomson

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

Carl Jung

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
- Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

Spencer Tracy

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
- Spencer Tracy

W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Douglas MacArthur

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
- Douglas MacArthur

Andre Maurois

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
- Andre Maurois

Ronald Reagan

The difference between a republic and a people's republic is a lot like the difference between a jacket and a strait jacket.
- Ronald Reagan

Woody Allen

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
- Woody Allen

Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce

Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Kevin Costner

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.
- Kevin Costner

Dr. Robert Muller

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
- Dr. Robert Muller

John Ruskin

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
- John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

Agatha Christie

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie

James M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

G. K. Chesterton

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton

Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein

Spike Milligan

Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

Albert Einstein

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Henry Chester

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action."
- Henry Chester

Mark Twain

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain