In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens would call me to membership in this popular branch of the greatest lawmaking body in the world. Out of their confidence and partiality they have done this. It is now my sole purpose here to help enact such wise and just laws that our common country will by virtue of these laws be a happier and a more prosperous country. I have always dreamed of a country which I believe this should be and will be, and that is one in which the citizenship is an educated and patriotic people, not swayed by passion and prejudice, and a country that shall know no East, no West, no North, no South, but inhabited by a people liberty loving, patriotic, happy, and prosperous, with its lawmakers having no other purpose than to write such just laws as shall in the years to come be of service to human kind yet unborn. Applause

Sam Rayburn

The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts Not of two lovers, but two loves the nests.

John Donne

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

Ellie Goulding

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.

Melodie Campbell

It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

Alex Meraz

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Joseph Roux

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Curtis LeMay

?We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

Thomas Jefferson

I think I can change the game.

Venus Williams

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Francis Quarles