No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

Jessica Simpson

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Come live with me, and be my love,
 And we will some new pleasures prove
 Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
 With silken lines, and silver hooks.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.

Proverb

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Heath Ledger

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

Matter was like a faint precipitate suspended in a world of dense light.describing the radiation era that began about 1 second after the Big Bang

Edward Harrison

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Melissa Bean

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Stendhal

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

J.K. Rowling

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump