You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.

R.D. Clyde

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Mark Hoppus

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Johann von Goethe

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon, Maxims

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Omar Sharif

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Deborah Moggach

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

Steve Maraboli

Every life has a soundtrack.There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup. If you ask me, music is the language of memory.

Jodi Picoult

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne