Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Harriet Martineau

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

David Plouffe

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

H. L. Mencken

Beware of one who has nothing to lose.

Italian Proverb

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Paris Hilton

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

Kim Clijsters

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Felix Frankfurter