To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

Jon Stewart

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Florence GriffithJoyner

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

John Hersey

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

Elizabeth Price

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Coco Chanel

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Arthur Golden

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

Charles Dickens

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Charles Schumer

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau