Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

Wiz Khalifa

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Ken Salazar

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Orison Swett Marden

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Leo Burnett

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

Whoopi Goldberg

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Amber Heard

A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule.

Scott Adams

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Nathalie Sarraute

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

David Fasold