A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward

When the tide of life turns against youAnd the current upsets your boat,Don't waste tears on what might have been,Just lie on your back and float.

Anon.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Bernie Sanders

Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances.

George Eliot

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Gary Wright

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Freya Stark

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

Jeremy London

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankindhttp://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/letters/60.html

Thomas Henry Huxley, Letter to C

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Barbara Bush