Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.

Steve Maraboli

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other mens labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same nameliberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable namesliberty and tyranny.

Abraham Lincoln

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

J.K. Rowling

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

David A. Stockman

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Madeleine Albright

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Groucho Marx

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Toba Beta