Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Celine Dion

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Carter G. Woodson

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Adrien Brody

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right.

Gregory Nunn

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Peter Medawar

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Jennifer Garner

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Paul Robeson

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

Shaun White