Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine.

Bob Dylan

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Jesse Owens

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Major Taylor

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Ambrose Bierce

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

Loretta Lynn

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Ghose Aurobindo

I went down to the store and bought some blank cassette tapes.When I got home I put one in my cassette deck and turned it upfull blast. I was walking around my house when I heard a knockon my door. It was my neighbor complaining about thenoise... He's a mime.

Steven Wright

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Phil Keoghan