but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Carl Sandburg

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

J. C. Watts

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

Nadia Giosia

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truththat God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

Benjamin Franklin

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

I do not say anything from jealousy.

Anna Held

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. It's possible to achieve a state where you realize the truth of life and fear disappears, and a lot of people have reached that state, but next to none of them are on Earth. There's probably a few.

David Lynch

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson