We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

E. M. Forster

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

B. C. Forbes

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Brittany Murphy

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Max Eastman

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Bertrand Russell

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

Elizabeth Gilbert

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Friedrich von Schiller

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Al Franken

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.”

George R.R. Martin