All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

John Green

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

Salma Hayek

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies

Lord Byron

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

John Kuypers

Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

Ornette Coleman

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Tom Hobson

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Paul Lynde