Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Achievement has no color

Abraham Lincoln

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

Anon.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

John Jay Chapman

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

Carl Lewis

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Forest Whitaker

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Doug Coupland

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

Steve Backley

And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will shine.

Chad Sugg