Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.
The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.
The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.
Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.
Memories just get richer with time.
Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.
Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
America - love it or leave it.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
A bad attitude is the only true handicap.
I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Nothing recedes like success.
He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.
Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.
When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!
