Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Anne Baxter

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

Eric Stoltz

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Chuck Knox

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

Bernie Sanders

It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept...No matter how strange.

K.C. Randall

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Jerzy Kosinski

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

William Osler

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Robert Orben

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

David Suzuki