[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.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Peter Jennings

For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.

Stephen Richards

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Angelina Jolie

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Cassandra Clare

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Gray Davis

one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relationships are not where we go to have fun. Relationships are where we go to heal and where we go to learn. And who you’re going to attract is the person that’s going to bring to the forefront the thing you need to learn or heal or the thing that’s going to help you grow the most.

Iyanla Vanzant

People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.

Michael Lewis

Genius Borrows nobly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson