Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Timothy Leary

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Ella Maillart

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?I do not, she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams (Chapter 17) deleted scene- Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Iain Duncan Smith

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

J. K. Rowling

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort