Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

George Pataki

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

Nelson Mandela

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

Jeannette Walls

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Steve Guttenberg

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Randy Castillo

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue

Benjamin Franklin

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Delta Burke

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

Thomas a Kempis

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Eli Wallach

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

Stanley Kunitz

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Etty Hillesum