It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

Lucy Powell

People first, then money, then things.

Suze Orman

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to surround yourself with people who are better than you, and I was now living that mantra.

Kimberly Novosel

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Lord Greville

Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

Evelyn Underhill, The Mastery of

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Marilyn Monroe

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

George Eliot

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Source Unknown

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

John Dewey

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic'.

Allen Ginsberg

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson