A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Bob Feller

A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.

Proverb

If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.

Mary Jo Putney

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

John Green

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Robert Holden

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Ella Maillart

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Thomas Fuller

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus

Tomorrow never comes.

Proverb

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Frank Swinnerton

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Nadia Giosia