I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael JordanI can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
- John CageVision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese ProverbIn any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore RooseveltThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark TwainAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- Mark TwainIf a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn.
-Afghan ProverbA fire should be extinguished when it is small; an enemy should be subdued while young.
-Bhutanese proverb


It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
You have a gift that only you can give the world – that’s the whole reason you’re on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable.
My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been one.
Reality is something you rise above.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
My mother buried three husbands … and two of them were only napping.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.