Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Keith Richards

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Ernest Hemingway

Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Luther Burbank

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Sallust

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Felix Frankfurter

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Hugh Mackay

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Rodney Dangerfield

Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Lord Byron

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon