Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Alice Potter

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Mike Royko

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Bruce Willis

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

Jeff Goldblum

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Anton Chekhov

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

John Rowland

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

Jackie Robinson, Baseball Has Do

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson