If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

John Edward Masefield, from Sea

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is your belief that you are being held back that holds you back.

Steve Maraboli

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

Colin Hanks

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

Sienna Miller

Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it.

Diarian Hersi

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.

Ashley Tisdale