Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Marcia Wieder

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

Salman Rushdie

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Isla Fisher

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

James Fenimore Cooper

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain de Botton

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Jean-Francois Cope

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Samuel Johnson

In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.

Louise Woodward

Beyond the reach of common man; is that one elusive thing...Trust!

Denise Tanner

Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.

Lorii Myers

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

Bryant H. McGill

Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

Lea Michele