"When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

“I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.”

“If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world ...”

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

“More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.”

“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.”

“We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.”

“Health officials are saying the number of measles cases that originated in Disneyland continues to grow. Which is why this year after the game the Super Bowl MVPshouted, 'No way am I going to Disneyland!'”

“If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.”

“I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.”