If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!

Blaise Pascal

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Anne Rice

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

Giorgio Armani

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Terry Pratchett

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

Christina Perri

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

Patience is a virtue and the best things in life are worth waiting for.

Julie Spira

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Claude M. Bristol

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Thomas Carlyle

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.

Peggy Noonan