Our Gross National Product now is over 800 billion dollars a year.

Choose an attitude of wonderment, taking in all that is being said without assuming you already know what the speaker is talking about. Let go of jumping ahead to finish his or her thoughts. In order to learn you have to risk change...changing your mind!

Dwight Frindt

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Wallis Simpson

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Thomas S. Monson

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Demosthenes

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

Mindy Kaling

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

St. Francis De Sales

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E. L. Doctorow

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Madeline Miller

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

Bruce Froemming

Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.

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