[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Eric Hoffer

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Anne Baxter

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Tehyi Hsieh

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Proverb

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Naguib Mahfouz

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

Carl Sagan

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Ralph Lauren

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner