The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

[Growing up] is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Madeleine L'Engle

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Jackie Kennedy

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

Bernie Sanders

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Ovid

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

Cassandra Clare

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Marilyn vos Savant

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Stephen Covey

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

Paul Walker

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

George Eliot

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

Ed Westwick

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Leslie Nielsen