I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.

Proverb

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Neil Simon

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Harry S Truman

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Ramakrishna

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

Larry Wall

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Lauren Graham

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Albert Einstein

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Billy Corgan

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Roger Maris