It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.

John Green

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Lawrence Schiller

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

Henry James

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

John Sununu

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Robert Laughlin

Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J'ai reçu un télégramme de l'asile : « Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués. » Cela ne veut rien dire. C'était peut-être hier.

Albert Camus

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

Sheryl Sandberg

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

Victor Hugo

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Sidney Hillman

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama