The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Moon Unit Zappa

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Gertrude Stein

No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.

Lance Armstrong

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Bobby Jindal

My lifestyle changed when this wonderful person came into my life. I couldn't sleep for years. All of a sudden, I don't know why or how, but I slept.

Ryan Adams

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Benjamin Disraeli

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned. The first thought is this: fear. I cannot write because I am afraid. Of what?

Howard Nemerov, Journal of the F

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

Natalie Cole

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Algernon H. Blackwood