My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Thornton Wilder

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

John Steinbeck

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Sun Tzu

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William Shatner

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward George BulwerLytton

I've got your picture that you gave to meand it's signed with lovejust like it used to bethe only thing different, the only thing newI've got your picture and he's got you.

George Bedard

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

Patrick Swayze

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions...

W. Clement Stone

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

Roddy Doyle