You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

Bruce Froemming

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.

T.F. Hodge

I had a girlfriend that was so fat her bikini was made out of two bed sheets.

Rodney Dangerfield

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Norman Cousins

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Eric Cantona

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

Oscar Wilde

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Bertrand Russell

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Saint Francis de Sales

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Terri Apter