They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.

The man who believes he can and the man who believes he can't; they're both right.

Abraham Lincoln

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Eric Hoffer

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment; I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Greta Garbo

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

Russell Brand

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

Clare Boothe Luce

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.

American Indian Proverb, Plains

She was so ugly that if you grab a dictionary and look under the word ugly you would see her picture.

Rodney Dangerfield

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift