My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

Jan Karon

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Amy Tan

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Ovid

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

Nicholas Sparks

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anon.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

Martin Feldstein

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

Ken Follet