Your best is good enough.

When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kindness is shown to an Indian, he feels it in his heart and the heart has no tongue.

American Indian Proverb, Shoshon

To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears

The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

J. D. Hayworth

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of affairs is feasible only because the resources accessible to life can be used over and over again.

I.I. Gitelson

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Keith Henson

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

Jeremy Sisto

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

Tadao Ando