My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause... A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding; when it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Eric Hoffer, Thoughts on the Nat

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Samuel Johnson

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Steve Lopez

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Douglas MacArthur

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Walt Whitman

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

Simone Elkeles

Adventure is worthwhile.

Aristotle

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

LaToya Jackson