Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Alfred Austin

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Rand Paul

God had created the world in play.

Sri Ramakrishna

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Devon Aoki

...so many people end up doing, consciously or not, what others expect of them, or they settle for less because they think achieving their dream is too hard. Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen- Rob Sanders- pediatric physician

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It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Glenda Jackson

You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.

John Leonard

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heinrich Heine