For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria Shriver

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

Albert Einstein

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

John Green

What if somebody gave a war andNobody came?Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy andForever be Itself again.

Allen Ginsberg, Graffiti, 1972

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Michael Jordan

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Amber Tamblyn