Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras

All these books have lived together ... inside my mind. They follow one another only on paper and because of an utter impossibility to let themselves be all written at the same time. Whatever book I write, I never devote myself to it completely, and the matter which most insistently requires me soon later develops, however, at the other end of me.

Andre Gide, Journal, SeptemberOc

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Rupert Everett

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

Taylor Hackford

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

Aaron Carter

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Mark Twain

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Albert Schweitzer

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Portia de Rossi

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Leo Tolstoy

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Chuck Klosterman