Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, the right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Samuel Adams

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

Bill Toomey

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

Humphry Davy

Young people need models, not critics...

John Wooden

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Samuel Johnson

How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'(Amber)'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.'(Virgil Daly)

Christina Westover

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

Busta Rhymes

When speaking, being present means you choose to respond rather than react, letting go of emotions and objections and remaining focused on what is to be achieved.

Suzanne Mayo Frindt

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

Lech Walesa

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.

Tracy Bleers

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

Petra Nemcova