"When i was kidnapped my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."-Woody Allen "In order to succees we must first believe that we can"-Michael Korda "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement"-Barry LePather "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it"-Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play"-John Cleese "...You may be dissappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."-Beverly Sills "I never feel age... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."-Louise Nevelson "When i was born i was so surprised i couldn't talk for a year and a half."-Gracie Allen "After the verb 'to love,' 'to help' is the most beautiful verb in the world"-Bertha Von Suttner "A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper."-Barry Neil Kaufman "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."-B. B. King "I generally avoid temptation unless i can't resist it."-Mae West "Every exit is an entry somewhere else."-Tom Stoppard "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewellery."-John Lennon "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."-Benjamin Spock,MD "No one can make you inferior without your consent."-Eleanor Roosevelt "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity."-Joseph Addison "To err is human, but it is against company policy."-Anon "Effective management always means asking the right question."-Robert Heller "We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job."-William Feather "A well-informed employee is the best salesperson a company can have."-Edwin J. Thomas "In the space age the most important space is between the ears."-Thomas J. Barlow "There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar."-Anon "Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."-Vernon Law "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."-Pete Seeger "Never go to a docter whose office plants have died."-Erma Bombeck "I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and i eat it."-Anon "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."-Mark Twain "When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."-Malcolm Forbes "I couldn't wait for success... so i went ahead without it."-Jonathan Winters "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."-Erica Jong "Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full."-Henry A. Kissinger "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."-F. Scott Fitzgerald "Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time round."-Catherine Deneuve "Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open."-John Barrymore "You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough."-Joe E. Lewis "I've been on a calendar, but never on time."-Marilyn Monroe "Character is what you know you are, not what others think you are."-Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin "Some people march to a different drummer-and some people polka."-Los Angeles Times Syndicate "The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."-George P. Shultz ""Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to."-John Ed Pearce "The best career advice given to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."-Katherine Whitehorn "Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist."-Franklin P. Jones "Gentlemen prefer bonds."-Andrew Mellon "He Who knows others is clever; he who knows himself is enlightened."-Lao-Tzu "A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John le Clarre "Age is not important unless you're a cheese."-Helen Hayes "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."-Colin Powell "The older a man gets, the father he had to walk to school as a boy."-Commercial Appeal "The impossible is often the untried."-Jim Goodwin "Know the true value of time, snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it."-Lord Chesterfield "I'm extraordinarily patient provided i get my own way in the end."-Margaret Thatcher "Laughter is the sun that drives the winter from the human face."-Victor Hugo "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."-Marie Curie "We wonder at towering mountains, crashing seas, and orbiting stars- but forget to wonder at ourselfves"-St. Augustine "We are all here to love each other and all living things. There is nothing else we have to learn and nothing else we have to do."-anon "I don't answer all questions, just the ones the know-it-alls secretly ask themselves."-Mulla Nasrudin "Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like sending a kiss through a messenger."-Anonymous "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."-Winston Churchill