We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Charles Dickens

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

Ian Mcewan

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

John Perry Barlow

Ye golden hours of Life's young spring, Of innocence, of love and truth! Bright, beyond all imagining, Thou fairy-dream of youth! I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer-day.

Lewis Carroll

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Joel Edgerton

A place without meaning is no place to be.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Condoleezza Rice

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.

Jane Austen

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot