One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

Leon Trotsky

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Bruce Jenner

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Steve Lacy

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Jean Paul Richter

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Arthur Hailey

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Bill Dana

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Oprah Winfrey

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Hester i Thrale