"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking."

"There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others."

"Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it."

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television."

"Become a fixer, not just a fixture."

"Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels."

"Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key."

"Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost."

"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

"Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses."

"The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do."

"There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory."