Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

Gautam Gambhir

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Charlie Hunnam

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Colin Quinn

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Tom Hopkins

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.

Ted Dekker i The Bride Collector

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Robert J. Mckain

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

David Suzuki

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Henri Matisse

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

Charles Baudelaire