As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Tom Scholz

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

John Green

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Samuel Johnson

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lauryn Hill

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't follow the food trends.

Eric Ripert

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Webster

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

Dong Dong

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

Maria Montessori

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Address