I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Arabella Weir

The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Lynn M. Little

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Gilbert Murray

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Danish proverb

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Stendhal

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Aristotle

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Tyra Banks

Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

George E. Bergman

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns