When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment.

Steve Maraboli

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Anne Bronte

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Madeleine Albright

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Martin Van Buren

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

Ralph Merkle

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Ashley Judd

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Joseph Conrad

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Thomas Carlyle

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

William Shakespeare