If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

They talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Jim Fraser

My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Isaac Newton

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

Kevin James

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swish and flick.

J.K. Rowling

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Samuel Butler

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

John Irving