The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

Ernest Hemingway

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Susan B. Anthony

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Zora Neale Hurston

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Edgar Allan Poe

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.

Edmund Waller

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Daniel Burrus

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

Herman Melville

I love talking about Scientology.

Giovanni Ribisi

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Dick Vermeil