Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose. On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine.

Terry Pratchett

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

Leo Tolstoy

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Scott McNealy

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Alphonse Daudet

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Victor Kiam

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C.S. Lewis

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

Race is a lazy mind's tool for identifying culture.

Eric Parslow

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

Elizabeth Price