The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chin-Ning Chu

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Ace Frehley

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Lillian Carter

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Charles J. Givens

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

Jimmy Smits

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

Hafez

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson