My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.

Steve Maraboli

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

Duane Chapman

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Katherine Anne Porter

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Kurt Vonnegut

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

Henry B. Eyring

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Albert Einstein

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Joely Fisher

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

George Washington Carver

BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!

Steve Maraboli