If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.

Amit Abraham

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

Jeanette Winterson

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Anatole France

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

Tippi Hedren

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Michael Cunningham

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Marcel Proust

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

Wendy Liebman

To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.

Josh Brolin

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates