"When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility"

“A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.169, New York Review of Books

“I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.”

“Strangers are what friends are made of.”

“What's your favorite part of me?”

“He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.”

“If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.”

“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.”

“I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.”

Source : "Elisabetta Canalis on George Clooney Split: 'Break-ups Are a Personal Failure'". Chi Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. September 08, 2011.