Editor's picks

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

— John Wooden

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”

— John Wooden

“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

— John Wooden

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

— John Wooden

“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Luck is believing you're lucky.”

— Tennessee Williams

“You can't fix stupid.”

— Ron White

“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”

— Ron White

“The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.”

— Elwyn Brooks White

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”

— Elwyn Brooks White

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

— Elwyn Brooks White

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

— Mae West

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”

— Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

— Orson Welles

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

— Orson Welles

“Character is power.”

— Booker Washington

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker Washington

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

— Booker Washington

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

— Alice Walker

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

— Alice Walker

“It is important to remember yourself.”

— Alice Walker

“Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.”

— Alice Walker

“My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'”

— Ken Venturi

“There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.”

— Ken Venturi

“The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.”

— Ken Venturi

“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”

— Swami Vivekananda