Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

John Milton

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Knute Rockne

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salma Hayek

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Samuel Smiles

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Eleanor Porter

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

Alice Hoffman

There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you While the world is watching All you need is the thing you forgotten And that's to learn to live with what you are.

Ben Folds

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Jeffrey Kluger