Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Lao Tzu

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Doug Horton

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Oriana Fallaci

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Lincoln Steffens

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Johnson

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Robert Kiyosaki

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

Melissa Rosenberg

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho