The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

Mos Def

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Michael Badnarik

Your best is good enough.

Vivian E. Greenberg

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Simon Mainwaring

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

George Foreman

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Alanis Morissette

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Albert Camus