Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Paulo Coelho

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Sai Baba

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Louis E. Boone

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Jonathan Miller

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

P. G. Wodehouse

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Michael Clarke Duncan

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Charles Keating

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

English Proverb

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce