Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

Steve Buyer

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

David Crane

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Norman Cousins

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

Hermann Hesse

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you.

Alexander Rybak

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

Arthur Balfour

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

Paulo Coelho