I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
—Wernher von Braun (German-born American Engineer)
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
—Johann Jacob Zimmermann (German Nonconformist Theologian)
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
—Marlene Dietrich (German-born American Actor)
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence more than talents and accomplishments.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (American Essayist)
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)
Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
—John Dewey (American Philosopher)
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (American Essayist)
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
—John D. MacDonald (American Novelist)