“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”

— E. B. White

“Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.”

— George Foreman

“I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”

— Nadia Comaneci

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

— John Adams

“If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.”

— Serena Williams

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

— George S. Patton

“Congress should live by the same laws it passes on to the rest of the nation.”

— Elise Stefanik

“I tried bull-riding … I wasn’t good at all: I don’t think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I discovered acting through community theater.”

— Wes Studi

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”

— Pope John Paul II

“You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.”

— Carol Burnett

“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”

— Paul Newman

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

— Aristotle

“The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.”

— Denzel Washington

“If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

— Alexander the Great

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it’s more interesting that in real life, things aren’t exactly the way you planned.”

— Naomi Osaka

“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to im

prison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”

— Winston Churchill

“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.”

— Farah Fawcett

“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.”

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”

— Thomas Paine

“Every man should see the birth of his children.”

— Dennis Banks

“The first movie that I saw was ‘Godzilla’ and I loved it.”

— Pam Grier

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

— B. F. Skinner

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”

— Hank Aaron

“I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.”

— Ellen Ochoa

“If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.”

— Michael Schumacher

“I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.”

— Nick Nolte

“Standing in public in other people’s clothes, pretending to be someone else. It’s a strange way for a grown man to make a living.”

— James Gandolfini

“I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts but I don’t see myself being queen of this country.”

— Princess Diana