While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. – Martin Mull

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. – Cadet maxim, USMA, West Point, NY

Failure is the line of least persistence. – Alfred Brandt

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. – P.J. O’Rourke

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. – Henry A. Wallace, Vice President from 1941-1945

The word “politics” is derived from the word “poly,” meaning “many,” and the word “ticks,” meaning “blood sucking parasites.” – Larry Hardiman

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. – Mark Twain

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. – Erich Fromm

What does it mean when guys like us get off to a bad start? Not a goddamn thing! – Phil Harris, Captain of the Alaskan crab-fishing boat Cornelia Marie

A fair and honest narrative of the bad is a voucher for the truth of the good. – Thomas Jefferson

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. – Victor E. Frankl

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. – Porfirio Diaz

America, you lost. – Zacarias Moussaoui, upon being sentenced to life in prison

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright

I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. – Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner