Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Cavett Robert

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Jodi Picoult

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Juliette Lewis

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Charles Barkley

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

Germaine Greer

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Günter Brus

I never met a word I didn't love

Gail Carson Levine

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

Amy Adams

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

Every man is a part of each and our senses are attached to both. So when a man speaks of himself as a man, he is in matter; but when he speaks a scientific truth, he is out of matter and so far equal to god. So man's investigations are but an imitation of wisdom's experiments for his own happiness. And man not wanting to be outdone by his father tries to imitate what he sees and hears; this makes man a kind of progressive being. Man invents language from the fact that he cannot be satisfied to let God or wisdom dictate his acts, so he invents language to explain his wisdom. It has been said that language was invented to deceive others. In some cases I have no doubt but the world thinks it does but wisdom gives it another direction; or language acts to undeceive and it often exposes our ignorance.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, August

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen