Lauren Child – “I have regrets, definitely. They are little life ­lessons—reminders that if there is a next time, be braver.”

Mark Cuban – “When your back is against the wall, you’ve only got one direction to go.” 

Aldous Huxley – “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”

Quentin Crisp – “Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.”

Pauline Esther Phillips – “The best index to a person’s character is…”

J. M. Barrie – “Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.” 

Peter F. Drucker – “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” 

Andy Warhol – “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

W. Somerset Maugham – “It is a funny thing about life…”

Garrison Keillor – “When in doubt, look intelligent.”

Leslie Nielsen – “Doing nothing is very hard to do. You never know when you’re finished.”

Kurt Vonnegut – “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”