When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'

Thomas Frank

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

Jennifer Lopez

Everyone went donuts over them

Leslie Hochsztein

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Mark Caine

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...

Charles Dickens

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Walter Lippmann

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Bradley Cooper

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death

Plato

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

David Mitchell