The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. Donald Riggs on success
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. Rainer Maria Rilke on marriage
The actor can be compared to the soldier. The former dazzled by his triumphs, sighs continually for the struggles of stage- life; the latter filled with the glory he has acquired on the battlefield, cannot resign himself to peace. Adelaide Ristori on acting
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Antoine Rivarol on grief
I was born in 1962. True. And the room next to me was 1963. Joan Rivers on age
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. Edwin A. Robinson on life
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. J. D. Rockefeller Jr on thrift
Love begets love. This torment is my joy. Theodore Roethke on love
I never met a man I didn't like. Will Rogers on affection
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers on education
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. Will Rogers on freedom
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. Will Rogers on independence
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers on life
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. Will Rogers on marriage
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. Will Rogers on movies
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers on time
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle on success
If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success. William Romain on success
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo) Roman Congregation on change
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Roosevelt on fear