Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Wayne Dyer

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Dawna Markova

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Ronald Steel

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Marcus Garvey

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Frederick Donald Coggan

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

Dick Peterson

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Joyce Brothers

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

Michael Ealy

Ah, said Magnus. Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

Cassandra Clare