It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Jill Scott

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

Oscar Wilde

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Ben Stein

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Gene Fowler

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

Sidney Crosby

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

Miranda Lambert

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Salma Hayek

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Gavin Rossdale

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell