Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power].

Ron Nielsen

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Kelly Lynch

Die Leidenschaften lassen den Menschen leben, die Weisheit aber, lässt ihn überleben.

Veit Etzold

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude M. Bristol

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Ric Ocasek

ThereÂ’s a land where the mountains are nameless,

Robert William Service, The Spel

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?

Jim Boulton

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Isabel Allende

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Billy Graham

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

Michelle Branch

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow