Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Bill Cosby

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Molly Ivins

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

L.M. Montgomery

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Brian Tracy

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Albert Camus

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

Monica Seles

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Peter Ustinov

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Iris Murdoch

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Julie Burchill