Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

Red Carpet: Watching people who actually chase their dreams; criticizing what they're wearing... and wondering why we're depressed.

Steve Maraboli

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Michel de Montaigne

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

Women's intuition wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

Orson Scott Card

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Graham Taylor

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Murray Walker

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Charles de Montesquieu

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Anthony Swofford

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

Francis Bacon

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ... But so long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essa