Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

In dreams and love there are no impossibilities.

Source Unknown

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Jessica Brown Findlay

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

Otis Blackwell

One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice--though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.Mend my life!each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do--determined to savethe only life you could save.(copyrighted material)

Mary Oliver, The Journey

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

Source Unknown

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

James E. Casey

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.

Karan Patel

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Tony Blair

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

Kedar Joshi