The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Omar Sharif

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

David Gemmell

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

Cotton Fitzsimmons

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it

Maya Angelou

I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Thomas Huxley

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

Mark Twain

I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.

Lance Bass

No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.

Proverb