Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Alva Edison

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

Emanuel Cleaver

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Carlos Fuentes

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Michael McCaul

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Henry Drummond

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

Joyce Meyer

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

Tadao Ando

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

Jon Cryer

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh