A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

Jenny Han

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Napoleon Hill

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Julien Benda

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Jonathan Sacks

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

Travis Barker

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Lil Wayne

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas Cochrane

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

Adam Sandler

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway