I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Joseph Heller

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

Kid Rock

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Unselfishly, you left your fathers and your mothers,You left behind your sisters and your brothers.Leaving your beloved children and wives,You put on hold, your dreams

Anon., In Your Honor

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Adam Sandler

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

Dear one reading this, Please know that you are worth more than you could ever understand. Your purpose is so profound that the whole world will begin a fresh type of healing as you accomplish it. The truth is your sleeping breath moves the air for all eternity and there is nothing untouched by your existence. Imagine the impact of your words your actions. You are already changing the world. Please. I beg you. Realize this: You are already changing the world.

Lacey Sturm

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Marian Wright Edelman

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Sting

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Winfield Scott Hancock

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei