I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Henry David Thoreau

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Woodrow Wilson

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

Charles Dickens

Distance lends enchantment to the view

Mark Twain

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

Jeff Foxworthy

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

George Bernard Shaw

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayelet Waldman