You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Lawrence Durrell

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Lenny Bruce

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Jordin Sparks

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Thomas Fuller

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Le Corbusier

If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

Stephen Hawking

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

Suze Orman

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

William Osler

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Chaim Potok