Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Michelle Obama

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

Margaret Halsey

A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Ecco che cos'era la vita, che cos'era l'esperienza, che cosa inseguivano coloro che andavano in cerca di avventure, ecco a che cosa mirava l'arte: ritornare a casa propria, ai propri affetti, riprendere la vita

Boris Pasternak

Men die, but sorrow never dies;

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, The Crad

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Johann von Goethe

The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.

Stephen Richards

You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run.

Kenny Rogers

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle

In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.

Christopher Hitchens

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

America Ferrera