More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are

Santosh Kalwar

Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in

Mark Twain

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

Toby Jones

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Life is like a camera: just focus on what is important, capture good times, develop from negative, and if things do not work out, take another shot!

Daireth Winehouse

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Camille Paglia

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

V. S. Pritchett

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Jennifer Beals

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

John Wooden

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Leo Tolstoy

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell