Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

fans are just friends and family I haven't met... or wrote about yet

The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Once it stops being fun, we won't be able to do it anymore. People are going to know that we're not having fun, and we're going to know that we're not having fun. So at that point, it just ends.

I've always been into looking different.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.