We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nevell Bovee

License they mean when they cry liberty.

John Milton

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook, "The Washington Post",

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Christian Nevell Bovee

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Andre Dubus III

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little

I bought a perfect second car ... a tow truck.

Rodney Dangerfield

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

Zig Ziglar

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Aeschylus