Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

Shaun White

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him. Again and again she found herself forgetting, for the space of a heartbeat, that he was gone forever and that she could not turn to him for comfort.

J.K. Rowling

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

C.S. Lewis

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Joe Namath

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

Emma Donoghue

That to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Daniel Webster

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Serena Williams

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

Nolan Ryan