Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Do not be surprised that the world hates you, the truth is coming from the atheists I know.

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it).

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Be just before you are generous.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?