it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Oprah Winfrey

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

William Hazlitt

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

William J. Clinton

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Orson Scott Card

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Socrates

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Sylvia Browne

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

Stephen Harper

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Ruskin

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Martin Zimet

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace