I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

Gabrielle Reece

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

Blanche Lincoln

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

Stephen Leacock

Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, Now, let's write a swimming pool.

Paul McCartney

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Mark Ruffalo

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

Demi Lovato

Anyone may so arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible. He is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

Judge Learned Hand

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Denis Waitley