The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Charles Lindbergh

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Eric Lindros

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Answering Nor

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Miguel de Cervantes

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Padma Lakshmi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Joe Torre

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox