I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing

to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
Melinda Gates

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Omar Bongo

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. Apple, Jr.

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
Dwayne Hickman

Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato