Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Leo Tolstoy

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Atul Gawande

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Jodi Picoult

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Al Gore

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Curtis Stone

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Wallis Simpson