Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through to avoid.

Livy

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Barbara Sher

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?

Ernest Renan

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

Sa'di

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

David Byrne

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

Mira Grant

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

David Feherty

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

Ashly Lorenzana