Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linn

Nicholas Murray Butler, The Revo

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Emile Durkheim

It is better to be safe than sorry.

Proverb

I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.

David Boreanaz

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.

Mitch McConnell

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Billy Joel

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

Beau Bridges

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Alexander Chase

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Oscar Wilde

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

Eric Bana

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Arthur Scargill

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Andrew Tobias