To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James B. Connant

Let today be the day you are no longer intimidated by the monumental size of the change you want, but instead be empowered by your ability to make that change one step at a time.

Steve Maraboli

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

Gene Tunney

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Pat Riley

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

Source Unknown

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

John Hurt

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

Howard Gossage

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Leighton Meester