"Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgement repeated every day."
-- Jim Rohn, Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle.

"The purpose of all war is peace".
-- St. Augustine.

"For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction. A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three: the Mind, the Body, and the Emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings."
-- Peter McWilliams

"I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people."
-- Eddie Albert, 1906*-2005.


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(*Although some sources give the year as 1908, Mr. Albert's mother, who was unmarried at his birth, later altered the birth certificate for propriety's sake, Edward Albert Jr. told The Associated Press.According to The New York Times.)

"The boy you trained, gone he is, consumed by Darth Vader."
-- Yoda, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

"Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say. Because if they just like you, you're f*cked."
-- Mario Cantone, in New York Magazine, May 30, 2005.


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"I believe we should all curse as much as possible in these repressive times."
-- Everett Quinton, at the Lucille Lortel Awards, earlier this month.


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"If you can't think anything nice, don't think anything at all..."
-- Caeriel

"The spiritual path is not a matter of growing more metaphysically complicated; it's a process where we actually grow simpler and simpler, as we apply certain basic principles to everything we go through. We don't learn love, which is already etched on our hearts; we do, however, begin to unlearn fear. And with every change we make from blame to blessing, we pierce the veil of illusion that separates us from the world we want."
-- Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change.


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"Ozone and friendship will be our stimulants - let the drugs, tobacco, and strong drink go forever. Natural joy brings no headaches or heartaches."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Some people strengthen society just by being the people they are."
-- John Gardner.

"I believe spirit and energy are fraternal twins, born of the same egg."
-- Pearl Hoffman

"I've never died on screen, but I like the idea. Then I'd just have to lie down and do nothing."
-- Will Smith

"[The Riddler] really was a catalyst for me... I was nobody. I had done some guest shots here and there. But after I did that, I became a headliner in Vegas, so I can't put it down."
-- Frank Gorshin, 1934-2005



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"You kind of know it's coming, but it's bittersweet because when you love a character you want it to keep living on. I think George [Lucas] will do that... I have a feeling with George, you know...Yoda's such a popular character he'll probably do more things with him in the future, he just needs to settle back and relax a bit first... We haven't talked about it. But, whatever it is, if he wants me, I'm there."

-- Frank Oz, on the release of the final motion picture in the Star Wars saga. To Campbell Robertson, in the New York Times, May 17, 2005.


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"Winners do what losers don't want to."
-- Dr. Phil McGraw

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
-- Audre Lorde


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"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
-- Oscar Levant.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
-- Albert Camus

"Another thing that we must eliminate is talking about limitation; we must not even think of it or read about, or have any connection with it in any of our thinking, for we get only that which we think, no more and no less. This will be a hard thing to do. But if we remember that we are working out the science of being, though it nay seem long and hard at times, we sooner or later do it, and once it is done forever..."
-- Ernest Holmes, Creative Mind and Success.