The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Paulo Coelho

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

Benjamin Whichcote

Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.

Source Unknown

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Cecil Day Lewis

She concedes that she's the one she pleases.

Kim Carnes

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick the Great

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

Robin Leach

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Karen Black

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Sheryl Sandberg

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright