What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Sir William Temple

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Mark Twain

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

Esperanza Spalding

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Jennifer O'Neill

Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world's mountain-dwelling species.

Tim Flannery

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

Josh Radnor

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

Leonard Maltin

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Francis Yeats Brown

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam