The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.

Debbie Stabenow

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Cee Lo Green

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Mia Wasikowska

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

Lara Flynn Boyle

That's because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Paulo Coelho

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

Paris Hilton

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Alyssa Milano

Let the path be open to talent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jane Howard

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Joel Osteen