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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

- Humphry Davy

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

- Jerome K. Jerome

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

- Thomas Carlyle

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I’m America’s poet, or one of them, then I want to be in people’s hands. All people’s hands. People who would never buy a book.

- Maya Angelou

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

- George Eliot

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

- Arthur C. Clarke

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

- John D. Rockefeller

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

- Alexander Pope

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

- Lana Turner