When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

Lin Yutang

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

I thought: We are not close enough. I though: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.

John Green

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

Michael Chang

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Marcia Wieder

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Don Hirschberg

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn