To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Ringo Starr

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Robert Collier

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christopher Darden

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Stephen King

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Peter Bichsel

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Hubert Humphrey

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Jodi Picoult

Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Albert Camus

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Anna Benson

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Avicenna