Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Banana Yoshimoto

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Annie Elizabeth Delany, Having O

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte

Liars need to have good memories.

Algernon Sidney

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

H. Ross Perot

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Richard Thalheimer

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Oscar Wilde

No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.

Otto von Bismarck, reply when to

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Henry David Thoreau

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

Matthew Perry

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts

Aristotle