That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Renny Harlin

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

Jane Rogers

if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.

Jodi Picoult

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Orson Scott Card

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Oscar Wilde

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Madonna

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson