Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Josh Billings

Let's have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas Alva Edison

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Meagan Earls

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Diane Abbott

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

Remembrance of things past.

William Shakespeare

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Anthony Michael Hall

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

Walter Lippmann

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Diablo Cody