My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.

Quarius

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Ayrton Senna

So justice while she winks at crimes,Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Samuel Butler (poet), Hudibras (

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

Picabo Street

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Carlos Santana

She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Jane Austen

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.(Oscar Wilde's dying words)

Oscar Wilde

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Thomas Paine