It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

Oprah Winfrey

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

Charles Kuralt

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

Frank Carson

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

Idina Menzel

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

Alice Englert

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Terry Pratchett

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Warren Bennis

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.