It's always today, Jim, and it's just going to get better and better, I said.

Life we can't control, she thought. We must accept the cork we are and stay afloat, and bob gaily when we can. She

Abandon all patience, ye who enter beyond this door.

If you chase several hares at once, you won't undertake any one of them.

I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...

It wouldn't do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

Many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?

"Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -"

Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance.

But she squared her shoulders. Straightened her spine. My name is Celaena Sardothien, she whispered, and I will not be afraid.

"Chasing a dream has a price. It may require us to abandon our habits, it may make us go through difficulties, it may lead us to disappointments, etc. But no matter how high the price, it is never as...

I will at least have gained one ver

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

When you move they can't get you 'A'

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

And he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. He used to say, 'I want only can-do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can-do people around....

If you do everything, you'll win

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

She generally gave herself very good advice {though she very seldom followed it}, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly...