Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

Thomas Kempis

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Lessing

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

William Wordsworth

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Kurt Vonnegut

Tú, pájaro, vivirás en los árboles y volarás por los aires, alcanzarás la región de las nubes, rozarás la transparencia del cielo y no tendrás miedo de caer.

Popol Vuh

Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

Rick Riordan

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow