Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

See simplicity in the complicated.Achieve greatness in little things.

LaoTzu

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

Don DeLillo

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oscar Wilde

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Ricky Martin

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Brooks Atkinson

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.(note: Clinton borrowed from Eisenhower for this one)

William Jefferson Clinton, First

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Tom Robbins

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

Carol Burnett

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin