The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Noel Coward

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

Maurice Young

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green

There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.

Steve Maraboli

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

on tolerance of gays: You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Cyndi Lauper