You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Katherine F. Gerould

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Eric Butterworth

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai Stevenson

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Louise J. Kaplan

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Bono

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Oscar Wilde

. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Albert Camus

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

Paulo Coelho

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

Alfred E. Smith

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Horst Koehler