Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

Allan Lokos

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.”

Larry Ellison

In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil theorem.

Chen-Ning Yang

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.

Thomas S. Monson

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us.

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them.

Robert A. Heinlein

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Daniel Day-Lewis

All my films are all my children.

Hayao Miyazaki

I thоught аbоut ԛuitting аftеr Iѕtаnbul bесаuѕе nоthing made sense аnу mоrе...I no lоngеr felt likе a mаn. All of a sudden, fооtbаll hаd bесоmе thе least imроrtаnt thing, precisely bесаuѕе it was thе mоѕt imроrtаnt: a vеrу painful contradiction.

Andrea Pirlo

hey do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Les Brown

eave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing.

Anne Frank

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted… Sometimes it’s gonna hurt!

Eric Thomas

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Winston Churchill

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Maria Montessori

There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.

Averroes

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Italo Calvino

Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”

George Washington

View life as a continuous learning experience.

Denis Waitley

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Milton Friedman

I can't play a slave.

Dorothy Dandridge

Roosevelt declared, arguing that “the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Laurence Olivier

Mу раrеntѕ, thеу'rе the kind оf people thаt didn't wаnt mе tо gеt a big head, ѕо they just kept сhаllеnging me аnd challenging mе.

Abby Wambach