A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Betty Ford

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Joseph Brodsky

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

John D. Rockefeller

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

Jodi Picoult

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Buddha

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

Joyce Brothers

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

Diana Wynne Jones