It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the mind that makes the body.

Sojourner Truth

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Anthony Trollope

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

William Shakespeare

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

John Berger

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

William Lyon Phelps

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

Jim Courier

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

Tonya Hurley

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

Daniel Radcliffe