Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.

Art Buchwald

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

Holly Johnson

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

Victor Ortiz

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.

Meyer London

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

John Cornyn

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Virginia Woolf

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time

Leonard Bernstein

Pure and absolute truth can only be found beyond all its possible expressions; these expressions, as such, cannot claim the attributes of this truth, their relative remoteness from it is expressed by their differentiation and multiplicity, by which they are strictly limited.

Frithjof Schuon

The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

L. Ron Hubbard