A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Orwell

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart

Paulo Coelho

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Tim Kaine

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Source Unknown

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mario Vargas Llosa

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Robert Benchley

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.

Hilary Duff

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs