Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Nadine Gordimer

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

Henry Morton Stanley

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Loretta Young

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Richard Powers

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

Jay-Z

I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Stephen King

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Paulo Coelho

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

Mike Krzyzewski

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Terry Pratchett

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Thomas J. Cottle

Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

Richard Bach, Illusions: Reflect

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Leon Trotsky