Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Paulo Coelho

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

Sloane Crosley

The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox.

Kedar Joshi

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Melina Marchetta

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Karl Lagerfeld

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

Roger Clemens

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Etta James

The fundamental truth about globalization - that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour - is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.

David McNally (professor)