You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Leonard Cohen

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Graham Norton

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Baron William Henry Beveridge

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Leo Rosten

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Charles Lamb

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

George Allen, Sr.

There is a good side to every situation.

Dr. David Schwartz

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Albert Camus

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Michael Jordan

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies, Marchbanks' Al