Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Yves SaintLaurent

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

Larry Hagman

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Stephen King

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Joel Osteen

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

Steven J. Carroll

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Joss Whedon

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson