Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Everything worth having can be carried in your heart.

Spoken by pirate captain Raider

Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel.

Francesca Lia Block

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Jack Layton

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Denzel Washington

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Hans Selye

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Stephen King

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Douglass North

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

L. Ron Hubbard

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Amy Grant