But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.