Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

J.K. Rowling

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

Robert Rodriguez

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Diane Kruger

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Samuel Foote

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Ram Dass

To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started

Pablo

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot