Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Claud Cockburn

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

David Brooks

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

Cynthia Kersey

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

Billy Joel

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Joseph Addison

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel