If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

James Burgh

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Thorns and stings and those such things just make stronger our angel wings.

Terri Guillemets

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Spalding Gray

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

John Ruskin

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

Taylor Momsen

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Jules Verne

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake.

Steve Maraboli

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler