All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Storm Jameson

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Zig Ziglar

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

Chad Harbach

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Dwayne Johnson

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

John Selden

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Richard Milhous Nixon

Attitude is everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Esther Dyson

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J.K. Rowling