I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Our history is not our destiny.

Alan Cohen

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

Tori Spelling

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Albert Pike

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Bo Derek

There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

Florynce R. Kennedy

Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

Maggie Stiefvater

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

George Tenet

If something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.

Orson Scott Card

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Frances E. Willard

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night

William Shakespeare

Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.

Lucas Remmerswaal

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus