Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

Patrick Rothfuss

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Kevyn Aucoin

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.

Peter Mere Latham

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Mahatma Gandhi

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.

Henry David Thoreau

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Eric Hoffer

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Terence