"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

— Michel de Montaigne quoted in the Associated Press

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

— Richard Nixon quoted in the Montreal Gazette

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

— Oscar Wilde quoted in the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

— Hunter S. Thompson quoted in Mental Floss

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."

— Choreographer Agnes de Mille quoted in the Tulsa World

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not the okay, it’s not the end."

— John Lennon quoted in CNN.com

"Words are like money: There is nothing so useless, except when put to use."

— Samuel Johnson quoted in the Irish Independent

"Stories happen to those who tell them."

— Thucydides quoted in The Village Voice

"You never fail until you stop trying."

— Albert Einstein quoted in The Cincinnati Enquirer

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness."

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer