The world is in your hands, now use it.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

William Shakespeare

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us

Allan Lokos

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?''No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

J.K. Rowling

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Margaret Atwood

I love inspirational R&ampB, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

Ashthon Jones

Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws we find concerning it, are not laws introducing it; but regulating it, as an already existing thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

Dean Koontz

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Jules Renard

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl Buck

Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.

Steve Maraboli

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Eleanor Roosevelt