Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunther Grass

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Norman MacCaig

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

General Douglas MacArthur

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption

Bible

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

Jason Aldean

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Larry Adler

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Emily Mortimer

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Samuel Smiles