To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.http://www.rwe.org/pages/in_pursuit_of_the_truth_of_Success.htm

When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

Frank Miller

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Satchel Paige

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

James Boswell

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

William Wordsworth

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

William Gilmore Simms

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

Ambrose Bierce

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

P. L. Debevoise

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Darrow, Clarence S.

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

Michael Connelly

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

Tom Robbins

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman