What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

St. Jerome

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Philip Knight

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.

C.S. Lewis

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

Jarvis Cocker

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

Scott Weiland

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Robert Mapplethorpe

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Ramana Maharshi

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame de Maintenon

You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this.

Linda Ronstadt

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

William Hazlitt