At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin

She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.

Cassandra Clare

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.

Kristen Stewart

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Barbra Streisand

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan