The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Sophocles

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Esperanza Spalding

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

Russell Crowe

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

Jodi Picoult

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

Paulo Coelho

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.

Judge Hall

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Janeane Garofalo

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

Wayne Gretzky

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Marshall McLuhan