Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Yann Martel

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Jane Austen

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Larry David

By satisfying people's inner selfish desires, one made them happy and thus docile.

The Century of the Self

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Harold Rosenberg

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Alexander Alekhine

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

Paul Ambroise Valery

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Matthew Simpson

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out

Michel de Montaigne