My biggest fear in life is fear.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

Daniel Libeskind

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

Emmitt Smith

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Paulo Coelho

Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Walt Whitman

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Joe Sakic

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Wernher Von Braun