Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Chris Van Allsburg

...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Arthur Balfour

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Ellen DeGeneres

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Richard Rogers

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Ronald Reagan

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest. pg 248

Jennifer Donnelly

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.

Mario Vazquez

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Peter Demianovich Ouspensky

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips