But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive.

David R. Hawkins

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Mark Twain

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.

Joyce Brothers

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Harold Coffin

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Annie Lennox

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Mario Monti

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Jamie Moyer

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

Debbie Wasserman Schultz