I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ― Steven Wright

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison

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By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. ― Booker T. Washington

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.- Franz Kafka

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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. -John Lennon

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