Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

John Stuart Mill

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

Ed Westwick

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Red Skelton

?Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

David Attenborough

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --

Emily Dickinson

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Daniel Burrus

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Theodore Roosevelt

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker

Under his spurning feet, the roadLike an arrowly alpine river flowedAnd the landscape sped away behindLike an ocean flying before the wind....

Thomas Buchanan Read

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.

Jason Mewes

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Benjamin Franklin

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

V. S. Pritchett