You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884)
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie!-
Ann Landers