Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Carly Fiorina

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

John Green

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

Jessica Pare

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.

Abraham Lincoln

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

Mindy Kaling

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Piet Hein

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Marquis de Sade

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

Jonathan King

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Steve Martin

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Larry Flynt

Conscience is the only clue that will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies

Thomas Jefferson