You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Alfred Tennyson

Ich hatte eine sehr exakte Vorstellung davon, was ich gerade jetzt von diesem ansehnlichen Fremden verlangt hätte. Und dabei wäre seiner angeblich so geschickten Zunge definitiv eine der Hauptrollen zugefallen.

Emilia Polo

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

The heart was made to be broken

Oscar Wilde

Was it not part of the secret black art of truly politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real instrument of its revenge before all the world as a mortal enemy and nail it to the cross, so that 'all the world,' namely all the opponents of Israel, could unhesitatingly swallow just this bait? And could spiritual subtlety imagine any bait than this? Anything to equal the enticing, intoxicating, overwhelming, and undermining power of that symbol of the 'holy cross,' that ghastly paradox of a 'God on the cross,' that mystery of an unimaginable ultimate cruelty and self-crucifixion of God ?

Friedrich Nietzsche

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

Lauren Oliver

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk

Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.

Brian Klemmer

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Mal Pancoast