Inspiring Quotes

A lifelong creative who dabbled in cartooning, songwriting, and performing, Shel Silverstein is best known for his whimsical poetry for children. His writing strikes a clever balance between mischief and sincerity, often using bizarre characters as cautionary tales.

In one of Silverstein’s most well-known poems, a girl named Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout refuses to take ou...

To say that Maya Angelou had an incredible life would be an understatement. Her career alone included work as a dancer, singer, actress, movie director, composer, civil rights activist, teacher, journalist, poet, and public speaker — and, of course, she also wrote seven autobiographies, most famously the first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Through her writi...

“Good things come to those who wait” is a truism heard often in our everyday lives, and those “good things” usually manifest as closer relationships, successful careers, and a prevailing inner peace.

The art of patience combined with passion and persistence is what has propelled the greatest artists, scientists, athletes, and leaders to success. Famous authors have writ...

In May 1932, Amelia Earhart landed her Lockheed Vega in a cow pasture in Ballyarnett, Northern Ireland. When a local farmer asked, “Have you flown far?” the 34-year-old pilot replied, “From America.” In fact, she had just become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Earhart’s historic  flight made her an international celebrity. She received many honors...

Our sun is a giant ball of hydrogen and helium measuring 864,000 miles across and, at its core,reaching temperatures of 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. Those numbers are so staggering as to be incomprehensible. Standing here on Earth, looking up at the star that casts us in its warm light every day, we rarely think about how it and the rest of our solar system formed from a gi...