Meryl Streep

"My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

Rene Descartes

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."

The Dhammapada

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."

Peter McWilliams

"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."

Ann Richards

"I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system."

Kevin Smith

"More often than not, a hero�s most epic battle is the one you never see; it�s the battle that goes on within him or herself."

Roseanne Barr

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt."

Hyman Rickover

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."

Samuel Butler

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

Henry Ford

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

Ken Kesey

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

Jane Austen

"It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

C. Kent Wright

"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak."

Sugar

"You don�t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don�t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don�t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don�t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts./ You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth./ But that�s all."

Oprah Winfrey

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

Seneca

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."

Benjamin Franklin

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

L. M. Montgomery

"I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

Norman Thomas

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."

Peter Ustinov

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

Ilya Prigogine

"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."