I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that want from women is actually what their want from women.

Naomi Wolf

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.

George Eliot

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Mary Caroline Richards

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Wieder Marcia

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

John Betjeman

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

Martin Yan

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Aldous Huxley

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

David Hare

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Henry Fielding

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Maya Angelou