“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” – Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965)

“In victory you deserve champagne. In defeat you need it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French, 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821)

“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” – Kurt Vonnegut (American writer, 11 November 1922- 11 April 2007)

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist, writer, 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894)

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George F. Will (American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author, born on May 4, 1941)

“If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: ‘one shouldn’t do that’ – that is bourgeois.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990)

“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.” – François de La Rochefoucauld (French author, 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680)

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde (Irish writer and poet, 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)