I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Robert Fulghum

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Michael Burgess

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

Jill Scott

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Thomas Carlyle

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Harold S. Geneen

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Louis B. Lundborg

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Hesiod

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Oscar Wilde