The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Stephen King

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Neil Young

Reading is not optional.

Walter Dean Myers

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Cleveland Amory

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Vivienne Westwood

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Hillary Clinton

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

Cate Blanchett

Time is too slow for those who waittoo swift for those who feartoo long for those who grieve,too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity.Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways pass by, Love stays.

Henry Van Dyke, Katrina's Sun Di

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

Mary Hart