If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Daniela Pestova

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Reba McEntire

In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

G. I. Gurdjieff

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Malcolm Gladwell

Quietly...softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.

Shawntel Jefferson

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

Malcolm Turnbull

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Orson Scott Card

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan