I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Herman Kahn

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Sarah Vowell

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

W. S. Merwin

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Forbes

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan