My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

Morrie Schwartz

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Emma Goldman

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Paula Nelson

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann von Goethe

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Beth Ditto

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde

Understand that for better or worse, you create your own life.

Stephen Richards

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

John Surtees

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Pearl S. Buck