It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Michael Gove

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

John Guare

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Russell Baker, "New York Times",

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! ... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

Pablo Picasso

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Budd Schulberg

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

Dagobert D. Runes

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Bashar al-Assad

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

Lil Wayne

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

Ian Botham

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

Harry S Truman

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Umberto Eco