We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.

William Golding

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bern Williams

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Marie Curie

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Esther Williams

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Benjamin F. Fairless

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of crating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

John Green

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Peter Jennings

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

Nicholas Sparks