Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Eden Phillpotts

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

Alanis Morissette

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anne Sexton

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

John Ruskin

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

Ronald Reagan

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emile M. Cioran

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Plato

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Tyra Banks

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde