Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

Veronica Roth

What makes you think the whole world revolves around you?! my mother said, as I slowly rotated to maintain eye contact.

John Alejandro King

Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.

Kreeshna

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

Tom Brady

A good chief gives, he does not take.

American Indian Proverb, Mohawk

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Isaac Mizrahi

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Charles Baudelaire

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Thomas Henry Huxley

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Natalie Portman

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nikki Giovanni

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

John Wooden