Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Milan Kundera

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Immanuel Kant

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

Lynn Redgrave

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

Serena Williams

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Scottish Proverb

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

Sloane Crosley

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Mikhail Bakunin

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

Kevin Rudd

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau