Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

There was something more than a little satisfying about ripping the heart out of someone the moment before they expected to do the same to you.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.

I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry.

Place the team above yourself always.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

It’s a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc)

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.