For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. Grantland Rice, “Alumunus Football,” Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality. Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculptor

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. Edward P. Tryon

Well behaved women seldom make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

You either have to be first, best or different. Loretta Lynn

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend. Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Less is more. Mies van der Rohe, Referring to Modern Architecture