Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E. L. Doctorow

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B. C. Forbes

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Sarah Dessen

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

Nina Arianda

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Judy Holliday

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Jeanne Moreau

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

William Pollard

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Reed Hastings

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

J. C. (James Cash) Penney