The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else...was to be indifferent to that difference.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

Richard Russo

And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Frederick Smith

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Source Unknown

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Scott Alexander

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

Damien Hirst

The people who say they don

Patricia Alexander, Book of Comf

Eric and Yi will lose.

Magic 8 Ball

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Ezra Taft Benson

I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Oscar Levant