You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.