Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
Laurel Lea
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson
Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.
Colleen Hoover
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
P. T. Barnum
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
Bryan Adams
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Alan Moore