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.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Pearl Buck

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

Stacie Orrico

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Tom Brokaw

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work

Albert Einstein

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

Bruno Rossi

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Kahlil Gibran

If you don't love something you're not going to go to the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

Steve Jobs

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Marshall McLuhan

Think not I am what I appear.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron