There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Orison Swett Marden

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Shawn Johnson

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

Jewel

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

Cassandra Clare

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Emile Hirsch

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Baltasar Gracian

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx, Criticism of Hegel's

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

André Gide

O, had I but followed the arts!

William Shakespeare

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Thomas Huxley

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

Lewis Thomas