We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.

Cassandra Clare

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Azar Nafisi

Tessa leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins: he could not feel her skin, only the cloth of the gloves, and yet it did not matter. How you have kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning: the conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer. You are good, Will, she said. There is no one better placed than I am to be able to say with perfect confidence how good you really are.

Cassandra Clare

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Robert Collier

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Tom Hopkins

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

Daniel Greenberg

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

Lev Yilmaz

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Murray Kempton

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Griff Niblack

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Gordon Ramsay