Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now,Like a ripe field of wheat where once drove plough,All bounteous as she is fair, we think of thoseWho blew the breath of life into her frame:Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi: Three:Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword; and set her freeFrom ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim.

George Meredith

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Raked the meadows sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Lady Gaga

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Emily Greene Balch

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

Jenna Dewan

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Ann Brashares

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

Jean Paul Sartre

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Jeff Goodell

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Jack Nicklaus