Quote of the Day

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston S. Churchill

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Melissa Marr

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Oprah Winfrey

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

Apollonius of Tyana

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

Justin Verlander

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Charlotte Whitton

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Vladimir Nabokov

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

Karin Slaughter

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

Ali Smith

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

Garry Trudeau

My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.

Rick Astley

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Howard Nemerov

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chris Abani