Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

I got an answering machine for my phone. Now when I'm not homeand somebody calls me up, they hear a recording of a busysignal. I like to leave messages before the beep.

Steven Wright

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,with its hopes and invitations,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I'll never forget the way he tastes. It's not anything I can describe, a little sweet and a whole lot of spice, and it feels, in that moment, absolutely right.

Cynthia Hand

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

Business is tough you need tough guys.

Carlos Ghosn

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Johann von Goethe

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

Golda Meir

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

James Collins