If you see ninety-nine people running one way and three going the opposite, don't be too quick to join the majority.

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

Jodi Picoult

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

Jodi Picoult

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing

Bible

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Shmuley Boteach

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

Alexander Hamilton

Everything is practice.

Pele

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Lee Tergesen

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee