Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Earl Warren

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

Mia Hamm

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Denis Waitley

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Steve Martin

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Eckhart Tolle

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Harper Lee

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde