"We learn to walk by stumbling."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
                                       -- Truman Capote

"The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."            
                                                                            – Lucille Ball

About Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball, the beloved redheaded comedian, was born in 1911 in New York. She enrolled in drama school — where she was told she had no acting talent, so she became a model. That career led to her discovery by Hollywood. Ball and her bandleader husband, Desi Arnaz, pitched a sitcom to CBS, which refused it, but they went on the road with it as a vaudeville act. The act — about a ditzy housewife and her bandleader husband — was a success, as was the ensuing TV show, I Love Lucy. The show made TV history when Lucy's sitcom character was pregnant on the air. She died in 1989.

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                Tom
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"Always tell the truth. You may make a hole in one when you're alone on the golf course someday."

- FranklJonesn P. i

"Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow...but I'm still growing!" 
                                                                            Sir Edmund Hillary
                                                                         

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
- Robert H. Schuller

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
                                                                              – Steve Jobs

(This would have helped me in my high school years. Tom Aron)

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

                                         -- Stephen King

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions."
                                                    – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Everyone wants to see justice done
              to someone else.

"What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."
                                                          Napoleon Hill

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
                                                                                              – Groucho Marx

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it."
                                                          - Jonathon Winters

Everything comes to him
who hustles while he waits."
                                                         – Thomas A. Edison

Hmmmm, let me think about that, Tom.

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
                                                                          – Benjamin Disraeli

About Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) was a novelist, dandy, and ultimately a politician — he served twice as prime minister of England, the first (and thus far only) Jewish man to hold that office. He introduced a number of domestic reforms, including the Factory Act, the Public Heath Act, and the Education Act, but is best remembered for his imperialist foreign policies. During his second ministry Britain annexed the Fiji Islands and the Transvaal, purchased a controlling share of the Suez Canal, and declared Queen Victoria the empress of India.

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop

Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. 
                                                                                                             – Helen Keller

"One who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he wants to have."
- Socrates

 

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
                                                                            – Ralph Waldo Emerson