Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, that I may slumber in eternal sleep!

William Shakespeare

Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James M. Baldwin

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Life never end when you are in it.

Lemony Snicket

We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Cyril Connolly

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A right delayed is a right denied.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

R. H. Hutton

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Prem Rawat

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

Ted Stevens

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Lope de Vega