And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Joan L. Curcio

Round numbers are always false

Samuel Johnson

Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

David Letterman

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Giacomo Casanova

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Maurice Sendak

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

Abraham Lincoln

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

Regina King