Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

Orson Scott Card

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Martin Luther

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Victor Hugo

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Stevie Wonder

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

When you part from your friend,you grieve not;For that which you love most in himmay be clearer in his absence,as the mountain to the climberis clearer from the plain.

Kahlil Gibran

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Aleister Crowley

Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Stephen King

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Henry Ford