Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Novak Djokovic

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Edward James Olmos

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay

Charles Dickens

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

Carl Sagan

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Franz Grillparzer

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Nathaniel Branden

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Albert Einstein