The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

Darrell Royal

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Irving Langmuir

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

Dejan Stojanovic

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Mark Spitz

He understood now why she was so much calmer, so much happier when he held her hand while they walked. When he first did that, she had looked at their linked fingers quizzically, but didn't pull away, even though she had been as skittish as a stray cat. limit.

Sandra Ross

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

Lord Burleigh

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

John Adams

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

Lena Dunham

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

Hjalmar Branting

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Denis Waitley

Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Christopher Hitchens

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Leo Buscaglia