You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.

You need to take control of your own destiny.

Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.

I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes.

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.

At the end, you find the beginning.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Make fair agreements and stick to them

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.