I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

J.K. Rowling

Life is too short for a long story.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

Diana Gabaldon

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.

Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the M

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

J. K. Rowling

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Marcia Wieder

In the bleak midwinterFrosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter,Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, MidWinter, 1

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Bible

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

Vladimir Nabokov

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don

Julia Cameron

My goal has never been to dominate the market. My goal has always just been to just make a living.

Marco Arment