It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

William Blake

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

Alice Walker

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

Source Unknown

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Thomas Fuller

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

Nicki Minaj

Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

Melissa de la Cruz

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

G.K. Chesterton

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Anne Lamott

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

Maria Sharapova

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Lewis Mumford

To err is human to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope