• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force – Irving Berlin

• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist – J. Paul Getty

• If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing – Sparky Anderson

• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself – Henry Ward Beecher

• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning’s greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent – Maya Angelou

• Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet – Dave Barry

• Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut – Ernest Hemingway

• Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything – Floyd Dell

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war – Napoleon Bonaparte

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein

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