Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

My secret is practice

David Beckham

We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can.

Osayi Osar-Emokpae

People are taught how to speak, but their major concern should be how to keep silent.

Leo Tolstoy

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Clint Eastwood

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

J.R.R. Tolkien

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Ryan Tedder

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.

Bertrand Russell

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson, "The Liberty Son