This is the way God would do it if He only had money.
      George S. Kaufman, describing Moss Hart's home

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
      Walter Winchell

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
      Dorothy Parker

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
      Franz Kafka

If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
      George Sheehan

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundreth time I am right.
      Albert Einstein

If I had known my son was going to be president of Bolivia, I would have taught him to read and write.
      Enrique Penaranda's mother

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
      T.S. Eliot

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
      H.L. Mencken

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
      Mario Buatta

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
      Thomas Edison

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
      Reginald B. Mansell

There is then a simple answer to the question "What is the purpose of our individual lives?" They have whatever purpose we succeed in putting into them.
      A.J. Ayer

First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends - wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
      Aristotle

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
      Coco Chanel

Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.
      Satchel Paige

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
      Virgil Thompson

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
      Michel de Montaigne

Its surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings towards themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
      Sydney J. Harris

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
      Carl Jung

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy; whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
      Aristotle

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
      Rob Gilbert

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find it simply means to follow through.
      F.W. Nichol

These quotes were loving lifted from several of the books by the late great Peter McWilliams. All of his books are available online for free at http://www.mcwilliams.com/.