I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Eric Liu

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Amy Grant

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themseleves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest. Difficult tasks are a priviledge to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't start at the top.

Samuel Levenson

Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

Samantha Bee

We too often forget that not only is there a soul of goodness in things evil, but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Herbert Spencer

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

John Mayer

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Leo Aikman

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

Dee Dee Ramone