To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

He who sees his life as a process of spiritual perfection does not fear external events.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is perseverance.

Steve Jobs, Jobs quote from 1995

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.

Daley Thompson

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

Peter Singer

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Roseanne Barr

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Huston Smith

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

God be prais'd, that to believing souls, Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair

William Shakespeare

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

Susie Clevenger

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. p. 136.

Bertrand Russell