Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You and I have a love so secret that not even you know about it. But first, let me introduce myself.

Jarod Kintz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Raymond Chandler

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Travis Barker

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

Peter Singer

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Fernando Pessoa

Retirement: Statutory senility.

Emmett O'Donnell

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

Leo Tolstoy

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

John Johnson

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Imelda Staunton