Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

C.S. Lewis

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

Ronald Reagan

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Douglas Coupland

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Mae West

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

James Fenimore Cooper

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce