If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

I can't live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can't dream without the stars kissing me goodnight.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.