In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

G.K. Chesterton

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Edward Hoagland

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

Alicia Silverstone

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy, letter Tolstoy, Feb

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

John Perry Barlow

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Sidney Sheldon