The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

Ashley Tisdale

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Robert Trout

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tippett

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Pierre Bayle

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Paul Cezanne

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Angelus Silesius

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

The only failure is not to try.

George Clooney

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Camille Anna Paglia

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity

Hung TzuCheng