Quotes Added in April 2007

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.Nancy Astor

• alcohol
• drinking

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.Oliver Wendell Holmes

• purpose
• direction

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell

• art
• creativity

You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey Rooney

• success
• failure

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.Ayn Rand

• happiness
• values

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten

• belief
• faith

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller

• hope
• despair

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.Michel de Montaigne

• reading
• books

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.Michelangelo Buonarroti

• work
• genius
• excellence