Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts... (Act IV, Scene II)

William Shakespeare

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Michelle Branch

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

Mitt Romney

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Forever is a long bargain.

Proverb

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

Maya Angelou

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

James Allen

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Jodi Picoult