Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride