Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

There is no such thing as total oblivion – for, in one form or another, life is an everlasting continuum. Copyright © M.T.Hallgarth 2009-2015

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

I'm still the person on my friend's couch, and I'd like to own the couch.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.