Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

H. T. Leslie

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

Miles Teller

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

George Eliot

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

Saint John of the Cross

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Ally Carter

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Al McGuire

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Norah Jones

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Noomi Rapace

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

Karen Hughes

We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Jacob Bronowski