Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

All salvation is temporary,' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.'

John Green

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Elizabeth Olsen

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Martha Beck

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

James Baldwin

It's not who, it's when

Alejandro Taubas

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

Stephen Cambone

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Ricky Williams