To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Paulo Coelho

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Veda Upanishads

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

Cassandra Clare

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Sir Thomas Browne

One rain does not make a crop.

American Indian Proverb, Creole

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Chuck Noll

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

Rumi

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Charles de Montesquieu

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

J.K. Rowling