Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.