John Dryden

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

I don’t know how to drive.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.