Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Albert Einstein

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall

Jodi Picoult

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

Edward Atkinson

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Charles Dickens

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Maya Angelou

Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Jennifer Paynter

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Steve Wozniak

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Princess of Wales Diana

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Iain Duncan Smith