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6,778	64,138	As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.	Marion Jones	sports
8,962	67,374	We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.	Ed Markey	technology
8,392	55,969	Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.	Wendell Berry	positive
1,046	65,297	Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.	Helen Keller	success
885	28,815	When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.	Buddha	good
9,656	51,154	When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.	Norah Jones	music
7,332	23,606	The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.	Jeremy Rifkin	food
10,426	24,454	Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.	Milton Friedman	freedom
3,501	14,804	I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.	Karl Lagerfeld	diet
9,317	29,147	He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.	Plato	good
11,237	60,648	I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.	Louise Brown	romantic
7,742	19,861	Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.	Frank Gaffney	faith
10,029	22,987	I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.	Mary Decker	fitness
7,529	36,583	I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.	Bob Riley	hope
9,796	24,193	I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.	Julian Clary	forgiveness
4,545	26,425	I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.	Chris O'Dowd	funny
2,188	41,278	Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.	Ryan Adams	learning
10,167	73,488	I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.	James Thurber	women
3,257	31,002	Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.	John Lennon	great
1,906	16,961	This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.	Jerry Costello	environmental
5,030	42,356	I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.	Ayn Rand	life
5,372	26,703	I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.	Billy Graham	future
5,615	52,836	If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.	Kurt Cobain	peace
7,377	1,852	I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.	Laura Marling	alone
11,191	48,672	But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.	Katie Couric	morning
11,712	46,414	With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.	Andrew Shue	mom
954	73,692	If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.	Al Goldstein	women
8,840	72,039	The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'	Conan O'Brien	war
8,996	13,642	Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.	James Russell Lowell	death
9,163	23,534	I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.	Lea Michele	food
7,883	30,064	I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.	James Madison	government
5,233	48,010	I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.	David Duchovny	money
2,646	10,737	It's not cool to be an alcoholic.	Chester Bennington	cool
7,447	50,427	I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.	Lady Gaga	music
7,624	69,378	I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series.	R. L. Stine	travel
10,589	57,701	For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.	Fergie	relationship
3,743	60,892	You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.	Madeleine Peyroux	sad
2,498	7,841	I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.	Avril Lavigne	business
11,240	17,088	Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.	Malcolm X	equality
2,861	60,633	I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.	Patrick Swayze	romantic
9,367	75,503	Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.	Dan Savage	christmas
3,548	14,534	Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.	Dhani Harrison	design
10,850	145	Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.	Oprah Winfrey	age
8,607	59,203	The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.	John Keegan	religion
7,773	22,153	I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.	Nikos Kazantzakis	fear
8,012	72,928	In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.	Lucille Ball	wisdom
11,823	70,081	I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.	Sarah McLachlan	trust
7,037	66,665	When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.	Beverly Cleary	teacher
465	38,498	One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.	Lewis Mumford	intelligence
8,879	20,455	A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.	Eric Cantona	family
2,506	46,637	When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.	Trisha Yearwood	mom
5,456	40,515	When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.	Gennaro Angiulo	leadership
9,082	37,529	It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.	David Bailey	imagination
450	34,326	I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.	Michael Phelps	history
3,695	65,179	The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.	Lydia Sigourney	strength
10,227	14,226	When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.	Albert Brooks	death
3,122	65,165	The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.	Dagmara Dominczyk	strength
10,320	12,387	You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.	Ellie Goulding	dad
11,580	19,932	Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.	James Marsters	faith
8,068	36,333	Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.	Edward Gibbon	hope
8,066	47,044	My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.	Santigold	mom
2,217	32,866	The body is a sacred garment.	Martha Graham	health
10,780	36,836	The secret to humor is surprise.	Aristotle	humor
4,288	17,726	Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.	Roger Bacon	experience
4,924	22,080	I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.	Nadia Comaneci	fear
899	43,220	Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.	Steve Jobs	love
3,089	42,776	A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.	Robert Wagner	life
7,249	75,398	We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.	Tennessee Williams	work
10,692	53,498	You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.	Judith Light	peace
7,224	4,989	When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.	John McGahern	attitude
2,524	17,598	You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.	J. K. Rowling	experience
1,102	53,970	The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.	Jose Bergamin	poetry
1,517	22,119	If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.	James A. Michener	fear
9,849	58,774	Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.	Clarence Darrow	religion
4,502	72,806	Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.	Baltasar Gracian	wisdom
9,083	20,987	I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.	Sarah Jessica Parker	family
4,050	37,741	My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.	Patricia Highsmith	imagination
3,724	38,547	God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.	Raymond Holliwell	intelligence
4,522	10,817	It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!	Jordin Sparks	cool
3,418	59,054	Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.	Azar Nafisi	religion
2,521	66,325	When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.	Alexei Navalny	sympathy
4,057	66,207	Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.	Dirk Benedict	sympathy
8,880	60,880	Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.	Antonio Porchia	sad
6,853	55,186	I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.	Carly Fiorina	politics
6,149	11,242	I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.	Eric Bogosian	cool
822	32,044	The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.	Carl Jung	happiness
9,442	48,421	As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.	Frances O'Grady	morning
8,382	14,846	I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.	Lea Michele	diet
7,526	60,304	I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.	Harry Shum, Jr.	respect
1,160	13,717	Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.	J. K. Rowling	death
3,171	74,117	I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.	Shakira	women
770	37,978	The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.	Gilbert Murray	imagination
3,696	25,300	Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.	Octavia Butler	friendship
10,789	11,755	Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.	Andre Malraux	courage
3,275	1,152	What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	alone
8,158	38,301	There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.	John Fowles	intelligence
8,377	64,247	I think money in general hurts all sports.	Will McDonough	sports
10,480	30,778	Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.	Herb Ritts	graduation
4,498	52,777	Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.	Baruch Spinoza	peace
4,648	66,735	I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.	Martin Mull	teacher

6,778

64,138

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Marion Jones

sports

8,962

67,374

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

Ed Markey

technology

8,392

55,969

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Wendell Berry

positive

1,046

65,297

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

success

885

28,815

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

good

9,656

51,154

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Norah Jones

music

7,332

23,606

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

Jeremy Rifkin

food

10,426

24,454

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

freedom

3,501

14,804

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

diet

9,317

29,147

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato

good

11,237

60,648

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

romantic

7,742

19,861

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

Frank Gaffney

faith

10,029

22,987

I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.

Mary Decker

fitness

7,529

36,583

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

Bob Riley

hope

9,796

24,193

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

Julian Clary

forgiveness

4,545

26,425

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

Chris O'Dowd

funny

2,188

41,278

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

Ryan Adams

learning

10,167

73,488

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber

women

3,257

31,002

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

John Lennon

great

1,906

16,961

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Jerry Costello

environmental

5,030

42,356

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand

life

5,372

26,703

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Billy Graham

future

5,615

52,836

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Kurt Cobain

peace

7,377

1,852

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

Laura Marling

alone

11,191

48,672

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Katie Couric

morning

11,712

46,414

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

Andrew Shue

mom

954

73,692

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Al Goldstein

women

8,840

72,039

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

Conan O'Brien

war

8,996

13,642

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

death

9,163

23,534

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

Lea Michele

food

7,883

30,064

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

James Madison

government

5,233

48,010

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

David Duchovny

money

2,646

10,737

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Chester Bennington

cool

7,447

50,427

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Lady Gaga

music

7,624

69,378

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series.

R. L. Stine

travel

10,589

57,701

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Fergie

relationship

3,743

60,892

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

Madeleine Peyroux

sad

2,498

7,841

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

Avril Lavigne

business

11,240

17,088

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

equality

2,861

60,633

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Patrick Swayze

romantic

9,367

75,503

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

Dan Savage

christmas

3,548

14,534

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Dhani Harrison

design

10,850

145

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey

age

8,607

59,203

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

John Keegan

religion

7,773

22,153

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

fear

8,012

72,928

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

wisdom

11,823

70,081

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Sarah McLachlan

trust

7,037

66,665

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Beverly Cleary

teacher

465

38,498

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford

intelligence

8,879

20,455

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

Eric Cantona

family

2,506

46,637

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Trisha Yearwood

mom

5,456

40,515

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Gennaro Angiulo

leadership

9,082

37,529

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

imagination

450

34,326

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Michael Phelps

history

3,695

65,179

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Lydia Sigourney

strength

10,227

14,226

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

Albert Brooks

death

3,122

65,165

The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

Dagmara Dominczyk

strength

10,320

12,387

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Ellie Goulding

dad

11,580

19,932

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.

James Marsters

faith

8,068

36,333

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Edward Gibbon

hope

8,066

47,044

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

Santigold

mom

2,217

32,866

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

health

10,780

36,836

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

humor

4,288

17,726

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Roger Bacon

experience

4,924

22,080

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Nadia Comaneci

fear

899

43,220

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

love

3,089

42,776

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Robert Wagner

life

7,249

75,398

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

work

10,692

53,498

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

Judith Light

peace

7,224

4,989

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

John McGahern

attitude

2,524

17,598

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

J. K. Rowling

experience

1,102

53,970

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Jose Bergamin

poetry

1,517

22,119

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

James A. Michener

fear

9,849

58,774

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow

religion

4,502

72,806

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian

wisdom

9,083

20,987

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Sarah Jessica Parker

family

4,050

37,741

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Patricia Highsmith

imagination

3,724

38,547

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Raymond Holliwell

intelligence

4,522

10,817

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Jordin Sparks

cool

3,418

59,054

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

Azar Nafisi

religion

2,521

66,325

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Alexei Navalny

sympathy

4,057

66,207

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Dirk Benedict

sympathy

8,880

60,880

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Antonio Porchia

sad

6,853

55,186

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Carly Fiorina

politics

6,149

11,242

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

Eric Bogosian

cool

822

32,044

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

happiness

9,442

48,421

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

Frances O'Grady

morning

8,382

14,846

I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

Lea Michele

diet

7,526

60,304

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.

Harry Shum, Jr.

respect

1,160

13,717

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

J. K. Rowling

death

3,171

74,117

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

Shakira

women

770

37,978

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Gilbert Murray

imagination

3,696

25,300

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia Butler

friendship

10,789

11,755

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

courage

3,275

1,152

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

alone

8,158

38,301

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

John Fowles

intelligence

8,377

64,247

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Will McDonough

sports

10,480

30,778

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

Herb Ritts

graduation

4,498

52,777

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

peace

4,648

66,735

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Martin Mull

teacher