Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

Stephen King

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

Oscar Nunez

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me.

Rick Nielsen

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Giacomo Casanova

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

Richard A. Nelson

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Albert Jay Nock