Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Flannery O'Connor

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

George Weinberg

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Jodi Picoult

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Wole Soyinka

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

Colleen Haskell

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.'Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said.'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Cassandra Clare

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

W. C. Fields

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Adam Smith

You can't learn less.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Drew Carey

H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Mark Twain

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift