My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Anacreon

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards, getting it.

Paulo Coelho

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

Trisha Yearwood

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Kahlil Gibran

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Tre Cool

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Christopher Shays

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Bethenny Frankel

There is the truth; everything else is a cache.

Anonymous

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

John Keats

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Christina Rossetti

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Sting