I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life

Peter M. Senge

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Robert Burns

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Samuel Butler

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Bono

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Orison Swett Marden

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann von Goethe

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J.K. Rowling

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Ernest Hemingway

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

Basil King