When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Laurette Taylor

Roethlisberger argues that people who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question. They ask,

Karl Weick, How Projects Lose Me

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-union-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

Milton Friedman

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Thomas Carlyle

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Eddie Murphy

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...

Markus Zusak

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Benjamin Franklin

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

E. O. Wilson

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

Pir Vilayat Khan

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Iris Murdoch