People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority

Henry David Thoreau

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Benjamin Carson

The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Jonathan Swift

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.

Sir Martin Archer Shee

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

Ruben Studdard

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

James Whitcomb Riley

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

Tori Amos

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Steve Irwin

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley