My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Kofi Annan

He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.

Barbara Kingsolver

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles Dudley Warner

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Thorstein Veblen

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Jaron Lanier

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Oswald Chambers

Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Susan Rice