You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Venus Williams

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Steven Wright

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Abdul Kalam

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one's life span in comparison with billions on billions of ages. There is only one significance, you are a worker. The assignment is inscribed in your reason and heart and expressed clearly and comprehensibly by the best among the beings similar to you. The reward for doing the assignment is immediately within you. But what the significance of the assignment is or of its completion, that you are not given to know, nor do you need to know it. It is good enough as it is. What else could you desire?

Leo Tolstoy

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

William Shakespeare

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Venus Williams

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

Steve Moore

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Chase

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

Ted Nugent

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens