If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Paulo Coelho

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

John Jay Chapman

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

Ellen Ochoa

Why can't love be a fairy tale?

Amy Davis

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Norah Jones

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Dwight D Eisenhower

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sparks are warm while they last.

Susan Price

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

George Orwell

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker