Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Imitation belittles.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare? I say.I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralysed with terror,he says.You should wake me,I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,he says. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Suzanne Collins

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

E. M. Forster

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Samantha Morton

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

Marilyn Hacker

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Bob Woodward

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Heraclitus

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw