You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Alan Dershowitz

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Alexander Maclaren

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Samuel Beckett

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

Keith Richards

If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

George Herbert

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Francis Thompson

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Ulysses S. Grant

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Paul Wellstone

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb