My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Mae West

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

Troy Perry

I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods; it must have come to you again and again--in fact you've admitted to me as much--that I was leading, at any time these thirty years, a selfish frivolous scandalous life. And you see what it has made of me.

Henry James

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Bo Bennett

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Scott Alexander

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

G. W. F. Hegel

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Karl Radek

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.

Mikhail Strabo

Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It's simply about taking the leap....and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may soar.

Kristi Bowman

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.

Thiruvalluvar