"There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend."
- Wayne Gerard Trotman
"The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! Th..."
- Lisi Harrison
"Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepare..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons."
- Ben Carson
"I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in w..."
- Audre Lorde
"Optimists are usually inexperienced."
"It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it."
- Jon Krakauer
"[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time."
- Hal Clement
"She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because th..."
- Jessie Burton
"I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over."
- Daphne du Maurier