It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Wayne Dyer

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

Kevin Rudd

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

Martin Amis

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Daniel Webster

The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

Chris Bohjalian

You don't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Frank Shorter

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Allan Bloom