Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Albert Einstein

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

Source Unknown

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Natalie Imbruglia

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Diane Abbott

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hermann Hesse

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Mao Zedong

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

he was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy