Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Don Herold

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Anthony Burgess

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

Lana Parrilla

Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.

James L. Hayes

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery.

Erica Goros

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

Emma Roberts

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

St. Francis De Sales