At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Merton Miller

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Stephen King

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Betty Friedan

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

Kiana Tom

I would only blame myself if something happened to you.

Shannon A. Thompson

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Mike Krzyzewski