Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.

Sherri Shepherd

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Tom Sharp

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Barry Cornwall

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Friedrich von Schiller

A lie twice believed is self decieved

Brandon Mull

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

Shannon L. Alder

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Cyril Connolly

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Huston Smith

Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

Maureen Connolly