My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Edward W. Howe

Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

Ally Carter

The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.

Joseph French Johnson

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Jack Kingston

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Anais Nin

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

Shimon Peres

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Charles Dickens

As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Jane Austen

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin