I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

William Shakespeare

Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford

Samuel Johnson

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Mitt Romney

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The respect that you have for yourself sets a standard for others.

Evette Carter

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

Nikolai Berdyaev

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

Ralph Nader

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

Tom Van Vleck

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Sir Winston Churchill

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Floyd Patterson

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Mike Myers

If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.

Anon.