Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Oh, to awake from dreaming!

Virginia Woolf

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

Henry Reed

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Guy Lafleur

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

Vaclav Havel

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Joe Paterno

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jerry Chin

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Juliet Stevenson

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Steve Jobs

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield