Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.