It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Richard Branson

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

Blaise Pascal

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

James Whitcomb Riley

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

Amitabh Bachchan

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

Stephen Richards

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Hermann Broch

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

Better good manners than good looks.

Proverb