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How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.

Every wall was covered with shelves, packed tightly with books on every subject under the sun, and a few best unmentioned in polite company.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.

There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.

While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

I want the audience to be transported to a different world once they enter the auditorium.

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.