Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Natalie Gulbis

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

Gabrielle Union

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

Source Unknown

I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.

Karamo Brown

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Carrie P. Snow

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Ludacris

There's no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we all possess the power to create better futures.

John Renesch

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

Mathurin Regnier