The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Henry Miller

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jean Baudrillard

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Chris Kraus

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Ethan Coen

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

George Washington

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Jack Kerouac

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

You can plant a dream.

Anne Campbell

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Robert Anton Wilson