The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Joan Miro

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

Darrell Hammond

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

Sanaya Roman

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen

Linda Ballou

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Rosa Parks

I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.

John Fante

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Bobby Scott

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare

Lewis Morris

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Jodi Picoult

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt