Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Madeleine Albright

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Jay-Z

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

John C. Granville

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Judith Light

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Margaret Mead

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Ai Weiwei

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

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One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

Derek Jarman