It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Even when I was a kid I had a good thing with kids. To this day if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids I swear to you I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know we always honor her birthday.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

Some people won't go the extra mile and then on their birthday when no one makes a fuss they feel neglected and bitter.

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality but I did not of course manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend confidante intellectual soul mate co-parent inspiration.

To not be modest about it you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the 'Oh somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

All the best performers bring to their role something more something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.