Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

Jodi Picoult

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Brandon Boyd

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer.

Terri Guillemets

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

Randolph Silliman Bourne, Youth

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Hugh Jackman

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Heidi Murkoff

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson