My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

Kate Winslet

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Cher

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Ellen Barkin

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Bob Feller

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Nhat Hanh

Perfect love cannot be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

Andrew Sean Greer

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

George Eliot

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

Wealth will no give you satisfaction. The more your wealth grows, the more your requirements grow with it.

Leo Tolstoy