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

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.

Gerald W. Johnson

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

William Banting

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

General Douglas MacArthur

The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Proverb

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Jonathan Carroll

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Sarah Jessica Parker

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Sorin Cerin

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Vaclav Havel

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lena Horne