"Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die."

-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#Winning Quotes #Principles Quotes

“If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world”

Source : "A legacy of Mandela". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 05, 2013.
“I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.”
“Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds youâ€”and it will find you”
“The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.”
“That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.”
“There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.”
“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.”
“That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.”

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