One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Jenna Bush

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

Donny Osmond

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Diablo Cody

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Hans Selye

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

John Waters

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Edward George BulwerLytton

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Umberto Eco, The Island of the D

She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.

Cassandra Clare