I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.

Norman Douglas

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

Lenny Kravitz

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

Emmitt Smith

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

Zinedine Zidane

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

Cath Crowley

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

Steve Jobs