Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Abraham Pais

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

Nicholas Hoult

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

James Weldon Johnson

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Arianna Huffington

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Aldous Huxley

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Nigel Hamilton

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Queen Elizabeth II

You should not measure your worth by how much money you have in your bank account

Justice Okafor