Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

If some confectioners were willingTo let the shape announce the filling,We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,Bitten into and returned to the box.

Ogden Nash

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Mickey Rivers

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit

Ambrose Bierce

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Elbert Hubbard

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

Hank Azaria

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Eliot Spitzer

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Gary Neville

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Hannah Arendt

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

William James

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Philip Pullman