Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

—Unknown

I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.

—Unknown

There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

—Unknown

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

—Unknown

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

—Unknown

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

—Ronald Reagan

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

—Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

—Mark Twain

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

—John Gunther

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

—John Dewey