With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

Benjamin Franklin

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

Robert Nelson

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

Norman Douglas

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Samuel Johnson

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1776

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

William Shakespeare

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Victor Hugo

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore the earth is dark to me, the sunlight blackness, Therefore I go in tears and alone, by night and day; Therefore I find no love in heaven, no light, no beauty, A heaven taken by storm, where none are left but the slain!

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Leighton Meester