As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.

Paul Giamatti

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Rickey Henderson

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Hope Edelman

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

Dave Barry

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...

George Sand, Letter to Lina Cala

Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step by small step, until we are sure of the proper path.

Elaine Seiler

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch