How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep

Everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an a-----e is a horrible meal.

Chris Rock

Make the choice adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the danger or wonder 'till it drives you mad what would have happened if you had.

C.S. Lewis

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Wilkie Collins

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

J.K. Rowling

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C.S. Lewis

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Jerry Gillies

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Ang Lee

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

John Foster Dulles

Our words, our thoughts, and our feelings all contribute to the creation of our reality. Our word is a two-edged sword, it can create or it can destroy. To be impeccable is to create with conscious awareness and love. Ruiz also makes the point that our perceptions of others are merely reflections of ourselves. Therefore, to put another down or project negative words or energy towards another person, is to lash out at the other person because of our own insecurities. The human mind is fertile ground for the seeds that are our word. So plant the seeds of love, not fear. Judging, blaming, shaming, and especially gossiping create poison in ourselves and others. This agreement alone is enough to break all of your old agreements and change the dream of your life.

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreem