I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

Michael Nutter

Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Milton Hall

... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Michael J. Gelb

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Minnie Pearl

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Ralph W. Sockman

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant.

J. William Fulbright

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis de Sade

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

James Dean

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

Maggie Stiefvater