"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." — William Faulkner, American author, born 1897
"Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that’s when you start playing your best." — Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player, born 1981
"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father." — Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, born 1929
"Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?" — Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, born 1929
"My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run." — Allyson Felix, American sprinter, born 1985
"An authentic woman is not one who does not imitate anyone, but one who cannot be imitated." — Maria Felix, Mexican film actress, born 1914
"To me, pictures are like blintzes – ya gotta get ‘em while they’re hot." — Arthur Fellig, American photographer, born 1899
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, born March 24, 1919
"Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, born 1919
"Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, born 1919
"There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, born 1919