God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

John Ruskin

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Ella Maillart

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Theodore White, American Journal

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Benjamin Haydon

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Paul Thomas Anderson