It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Billy Graham

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Parmenides

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

Steve Jobs

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

Jean Paul Sartre

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

Brownie McGhee

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Eric Davis

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

Ricky Williams