It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit.

Bill Koch, After winning the Ame

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Ben Stein

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Sigmund Freud

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

Harry S Truman

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Orison Swett Marden

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Khalil Gibran

A prince is venison in heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Jimmy Carter

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

Ernest Hemingway

Who can live without it? ? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?

ABBA

If you get too far in front of your troops, you start looking like the enemy.

Anon.

Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you.

Alexander Rybak