Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

Gina Carano

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Lisa Genova

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Anthony Bourdain

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

J.K. Rowling

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Victor Kiam

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Zig Ziglar

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Gaston Bachelard

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Kofi Annan

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Bill Bryson

I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence