If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Jose Ramos-Horta

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Theresa

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Michel Aoun

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

John Steinbeck

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Clark Gable

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

George Eliot

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Barrett

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

Jodi Picoult

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Martha Reeves

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

Source Unknown

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Chris Robinson

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh