Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

George Eliot

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

Jenna Fischer

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

James Thurber

I love my mom and dad.

Taylor Momsen

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Ann Richards

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Richard Bandler

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Robert Frost

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

Tracey Ullman

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.

George Bernard Shaw