No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

Elisabeth Shue

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

Thomas Aquinas

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Nancy Lopez

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Neil Gaiman

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Horace

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Taylor Swift

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, Letter