My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being

C.S. Lewis

energy and persistence conquers all things

Benjamin Franklin

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Laura Marling

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

LaToya Jackson

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

Eden Phillpotts

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Anthony D'Angelo

A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.

Noam Shpancer

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Ernst Mach

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Audrey Hepburn

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

Drew Barrymore

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

Andrew Weil

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller