My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Katey Sagal

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

J.K. Rowling

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.

William T. Davis

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Joe Bamford

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan

Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.

Marta Acosta

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Gabriel Marcel

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

John Ashcroft

Every man has a right to one country. He has a right to love and serve that country and to feel that it is absolutely his country and that he has in it every right possessed by anyone else. It is our duty to require the man of German blood who is an American citizen to give up all allegiance to Germany wholeheartedly and without on his part any mental reservation whatever. If he does this it becomes no less our duty to give him the full rights of an American, including our loyal respect and friendship without on our part any mental reservation whatever. The duties are reciprocal, and from the standpoint of American patriotism one is as important as the other.

Theodore Roosevelt

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

John Green

Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword

Oscar Wilde