I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Samuel Butler

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Anthony Robbins

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Andre Maurois

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

Robin Macnaughton

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Doc Hastings

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

William Wordsworth

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Lawrence Durrell

Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.

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I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

Jewel