Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.

John Larkin

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Barbara Bush

The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it. This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain. And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the center of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that its secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it.

C.S. Lewis

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

Aleister Crowley

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

Matt Stone

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Billy Sherwood

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal, Penses