There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Lucille Ball

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Voltaire

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Wendy Liebman

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Russell Simmons

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Ellison

She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.

Cassandra Clare

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

Justice Smith