Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Charles Schumer

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Henry Miller

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Mia Maestro

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Lyman Trumbull

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Sue Monk Kidd

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Frederick William Robertson

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

Thomas Jefferson

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

John Green

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West