When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the universe to send you more, it also sees to it that those blessings remain.

There is a condition in which a person feels himself the architect of his life. It occurs when he concentrates all his efforts and all his intellect on the present moment.

Leo Tolstoy

What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory cousins and ancestors?

Nicholas Dodman

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.

Eliza Cook

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

Brad Garrett

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Ella Maillart

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

Ben Says: Make up your mind

Timothy Pina

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

James E. Casey

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Marshall McLuhan

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson