"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

—Sun Tzu

"I don’t have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life, but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it’s neither good or bad. It just is, and what it means to you is what’s your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I’m completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over."

—Bill Russell

“Sometimes to survive, we must become more than we are programmed to be.”

—Roz

“Life changes, and thus partying changes, and what it means to party evolves as well … It’s a conscious decision to look at life – despite all the evidence to the contrary – as an incredible event, and therefore to be grateful for it every day, and celebrate it every day. People celebrate Friday nights, holidays, birthdays and other special events. So being alive must be the most special event of all.”

—Andrew W.K.

“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”

—Conan O’Brien

“I don’t have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.”

—SZA

“There's nothing anyone in this circle can do to me that's gonna impact my identity and who I am as a person or a coach. We're either gonna win or we're not, and 40 years from now, none of you are invited to my funeral and that's it.”

—Joe Mazzulla

“It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.”

—Tony Bennett

"Take a year and make a break, there ain't that much at stake. The answers could be relatively easy."

—Jason Isbell

"You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live."

— Stuart Scott

"Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty."

—The Notorious B.I.G.

"Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'"

—Anthony Bourdain

"This moment is bigger than me. This moment is for every girl who was told she wasn't enough."

—A'ja Wilson

"Some bricks now baby, say, let's build a home."

—Jack White

"Do I EVER miss?"

—Mike O'Connell

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

—Ella Fitzgerald

“If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you’re drunk.”

— Conan O'Brien

“I’m the first brewer to be elected governor since Sam Adams in 1792. It’s been a while.”

—John Hickenlooper

“At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.”

—Simone Biles

“This is for everybody in ‘sota!”

— Kevin Garnett