My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

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E.E. Cummings

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

John Galsworthy

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Paulo Coelho

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught

St. Thomas Aquinas

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

Evan Davis

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy, Mr. Roper, it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation. -said by Katherine Darnell in Chasing Shakespeares, by Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Chinese Proverb

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

Wangari Maathai

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Whoopi Goldberg