A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Mason Cooley

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Dennis Rodman

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Salvatore Quasimodo

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience

Oscar Wilde

I can't mention, I'm sorry to say, any Arab leader... Where is the... Nasser? Where is the Arab leader who will stand up and tell these people the truth? This is what we are waiting for.

George Galloway

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Virginia Woolf

We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing.

C.S. Lewis

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Billy Corgan