"The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back"

“Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”

“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.”

“It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.”

Source : Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.47, U of Nebraska Press

“All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it”

Source : Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”

“It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.”

“I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.”

“Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.”

“This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.”

Source : "Joe Klein’s Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2006.