All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
—
Gore Vidal
(October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
— Muhammad Ali
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
— Mark Twain