What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

That's because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Paulo Coelho

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Dan Savage

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

Dave Winer

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Blaise Pascal

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier, A Song

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Adlai Stevenson

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

Eric Stoltz

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

Obstacles Can't Stop You, Problems Can't Stop You, People Can't Stop You. Only You Can Stop You!

Jeffrey Gitomer