Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

Conan O'Brien

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

Regret is a spiritual scar.

Steve Maraboli

Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

Ethan Hawke

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

Andy Milonakis

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

J.K. Rowling

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Mae West

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Fidel Castro

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol