Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Damian Lewis

True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

Sarah Dessen

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Nikki Giovanni

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

Dan Wheldon

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Barbara Sher

Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.

Nikki Rosen

Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Anthony Horowitz

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Mark Caine