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

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.

Bhagavad Gita

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Wentworth Miller

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

James Blunt

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

Christopher Hitchens

Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?

Richard Pryor

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

Thomas Frank

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.

Casper Van Dien

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Terry Pratchett