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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
      — Ayn Rand
 

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
      — The Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"
 

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they're jitterbugging or dancing cheek-to-cheek.
      — Tom Robbins, novelist
 

If a picture wasn't going well I'd put a puppy dog in it—always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full-bred puppies, Then I'd put a bandage on its foot.
      — Norman Rockwell, artist
 

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie,' until you can find a rock.
      — Will Rogers, American comedian, humorist, vaudeville performer and actor; cowboy pundit
 

I used to go fishing. Then it dawned on me: I can buy fish.
      — Kenny Rogerson, entertainer
 

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight train, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
      — Franklin Roosevelt, former U.S. President
 

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
      — Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, once said of her celebrated parent
 

As for my autobiography, I can't begin to tell you how dull it would be. My autobiography would consist almost entirely of chapters about me sitting alone in a room looking at a typewriter.
      — Philip Roth, author
 

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