Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. ― Toni Morrison

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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.— Mignon McLaughlin

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Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it. — Simone Biles

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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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Through discipline comes freedom. — Aristotle

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It is your determination and persistence that will make you a successful person. - Kenneth J Hutchins

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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. ― Jessica Savitch

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