One definition of success might be: refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger. -Yahia Lababidi

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. -Sophia Loren

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People forget years and remember moments. -Ann Beattie

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -Jorge Luis Borges

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this. -Robert Green Ingersoll

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.  -Jimmy Carter

To be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship. -Barack Obama

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person. -Stevie Nicks