I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Chubby Checker

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Jodi Picoult

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Rickie Lee Jones

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

William Shakespeare

Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses.

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The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.

David Axelrod

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open.

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