I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

Camille Claudel

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

Bobby Orr

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Stephen Covey

Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked?Jace: I was following you.Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?

Cassandra Clare

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Constance Baker Motley

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

Eric Wareheim

Hope is the parent of faith.

Cyrus A. Bartol

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Ernest Holmes

I've had cameos on some cool shows.

Paul Wesley

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm