I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Lexa Doig

Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.

Katie Kacvinsky

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Michael Morpurgo

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Proverb

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holiday

Embrace the cracks in your life and the breaks in your heart as places into which divine light can shine.

Iyanla Vanzant

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

Vera Farmiga

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

Stephen King

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuc