Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

Mandy Moore

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Gerrit Smith

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Saint Patrick

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Thomas Paine

A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.

Bible

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

J.K. Rowling

There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

Grantland Rice

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Lenny Kravitz

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Stephen Jay Gould

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley