Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

Andre Breton

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Albert Einstein

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Courteney Cox

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Johnny Unitas

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Theresa Breslin