Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Ronald Reagan

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

George J. Mitchell

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Eleanor Roosevelt

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Steven Wright

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Stanislav Grof

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

Ben Stein

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Donald Cargill

All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.

Blaise Pascal

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

Thomas Jefferson