To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Elif Shafak

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

Fergie

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Amy Adams

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

Wilma Mankiller

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

Eliot Wigginton

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Kurt Vonnegut

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Herbert Spencer

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

Trust your gut.

Sara Blakely

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Bill Mcglashen