The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Leo Tolstoy

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Lloyd Wright

experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other

Benjamin Franklin

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Havelock Ellis

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Lady Gaga

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

Don Miller

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Johann von Goethe

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Martha Scott

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

Mark Twain