There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Elie Wiesel

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

Wayne Dyer

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Raymond Williams

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Samuel Smiles

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi todos los defectos, que no es cauto abandonarse de ellos.

Jane Austen

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Samantha Morton

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

Alice Hoffman