The best way to compete is to get defeat.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

James Allen

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

David Bowie

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning

Virginia Woolf

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Paul Henderson

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

Sebastian Vettel

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

Newt Gingrich

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Robert Frost

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

William Wordsworth

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Ambrose Bierce