My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

Howard Zinn

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

Nick Vujicic

Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Steve Maraboli

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Bertrand Russell

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Willa Cather

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Roland Barthes

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

James Buchan

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Eric Hoffer

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

Gary Wright

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Marguerite Blessington

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Sara Blakely