Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. In the movie Braveheart

William Gordon Wallace

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Moore

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

David Hume

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

Don Winslow

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Abdul Kalam

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Robert Trout

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou