It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

Stephen King

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Russel H. Conwell

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Dorothy Thompson

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

E.H. Chapin

Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't.

Charles Dickens

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

Stefano Gabbana

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

Chris Robinson

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Laura Wilkinson

All it takes is all you got.

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