If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Neil Gaiman

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

Greta Scacchi

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

J.K. Rowling

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Ernest Gaines

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Howard Whitman

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Douglas MacArthur

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

John F. Kennedy

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Henry Miller

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Franz Kafka

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Fred Saberhagen

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Sam Houston