Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Gavin Newsom

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Eminem

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

Richard Hammond

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Anne Grant

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Joseph Addison

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Steven Wright

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

I respect Everest very much.

Anatoli Boukreev

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Walter Bagehot

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Eberhard Arnold

You know how it is when you decide to lie and say the check isin the mail, and then you remember it really is? I'm like thatall the time.

Steven Wright