I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kofi Annan

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

George Canning

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14

Bible

Your seed is your initial intent and it flourishes when your actions reflect that intent.

Steve Maraboli

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Stephen Hawking

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

Saku Koivu

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert

However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.

Source Unknown

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Dan Savage

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith