Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.