There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: . . . . . . . . .

J.K. Rowling

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Asa Don Brown

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

Charlotte Bronte

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

John Milton

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

Vicente del Bosque

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

Hillary Clinton

The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

Lazare Carnot

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

Cynthia Nixon

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Samantha Barks