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- It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
- You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
- Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), September 11, 1956
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
- Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
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