Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

Paulo Coelho

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Jamie Foxx

Shine bright, be yourself.

Stephen Richards

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Terry Riley

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Dale Carnegie

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

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When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.

Steve Maraboli

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Philip Seymour Hoffman

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

Jennifer Garner

You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you're capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.

Paulo Coelho