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Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

I was brought up to reuse things.

Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

I never use a computer.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!