Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Murray Walker

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

Kahlil Gibran

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Penny Marshall

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Mika Brzezinski

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas Cochrane

I've watched a lot of mid-career people, and Yogi Berra says you can observe a lot just by watching. I've concluded that most people enjoy learning and growing. And many are dearly troubled by the self-assessments of mid-career. Such self-assessments are no great problem at your age. You're young and moving up. The drama of your own rise is enough. But when you reach middle age, when your energies aren't what they used to be, then you'll begin to wonder what it all added up to; you'll begin to look for the figure in the carpet of your life. I have some simple advice for you when you begin that process. Don't be too hard on yourself. Look ahead. Someone said that Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. And above all don't imagine that the story is over. Life has a lot of chapters.

John W. Gardner, Personal Renewa

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Gerald C. Meyers

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

David Suzuki

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Marquis de Sade

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Jodi Picoult