My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Douglas William Jerrold

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

Sarah Hyland

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Charles de Lint

Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

Nicki Minaj

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Antonio Tabucchi

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

Paulo Coelho

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.

Ahmet Davutoglu

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Spike Jonze

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Brigitte Bardot