Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Esther Williams

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Anna Paquin

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!

John Keats

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Suze Orman

Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most without their names being immortalized in any history books. Millions of people have lived and worked and loved and died without making any great claims to fame or fortune. But they aren't forgotten - not by their friends, not by their families. And some of these people, some very special people, are not forgotten even by those who harldy knew them.

Source Unknown

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

Ian MacKaye

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Rodney King

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

George S. Patton