Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

John O'Donohue

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mary Douglas

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

J. William Fulbright

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

Steven K. Scott

Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counsel

Bulgarian Proverb

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Edwin Louis Cole

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

J. August Strindberg

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

Kylie Bax

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

Lena Dunham