Scott Westerfeld

"Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents."

Linda Berdoll

"It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist."

Edward L. Flom

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"

John Green

"The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real."

David Cronenberg

"The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution."

Lawana Blackwell

"For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children."

Anthony Starr

"Sport is imposing order on what was chaos."

Anna Sewell

"I am never afraid of what I know."

Elizabeth Aston

"Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason."

Barbara Schapiro

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

The Mishnah

"Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure."

Shirley Trusty Corey

"The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future."

Edmund Burke

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

William Jennings Bryan

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Jeph Jacques

"Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable."

Jane Goodall

"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."

John Quincy Adams

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."

Sophocles

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

Bono

"There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."

Martha Burgess

"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."

Charles Dickens

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

G. K. Chesterton

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

the Dhammapada

"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."