I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

Rachael Ray

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Theodore Roosevelt

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rollo May

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

Honore de Balzac

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

John Carmack

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Bear Grylls

[Growing up] is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Madeleine L'Engle

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Sue Monk Kidd

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Proverb, Portuguese Proverb

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Henry Reed

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain