I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title

Virginia Woolf

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Jules Renard

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

Anthony Kiedis

People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.

Murray D. Lincoln

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

David Mamet

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein