People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

Steve Maraboli

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Deborah Tannen

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Marie Windsor

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amy Adams

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

Yulia Tymoshenko

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

Christopher Darden

I washed mud, off of mud.

Steven Wright

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ernest Hemingway

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth KublerRoss