It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person's pride.

If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.

Larry Page

Cuando recordamos que todos somos locos, la vida queda explicada

Mark Twain

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Samuel Johnson

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Kelly Clarkson

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Tiger Woods

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Wolfgang Riebe

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Grandma Moses

Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Barack Obama