But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Benjamin Disraeli

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

James A. Michener

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Georges Bataille

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Dan Rather

Reputation are made every day and every minute.

Christopher Ruel

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.

Joy Reidenberg

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Marianne Moore

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Terry Pratchett

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Matthew Stover