In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Source Unknown

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Samuel Butler

I grew up in a very toxic home.

Bethenny Frankel

Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I mean, what does it mean to you? In your head? Dream: Well, I use it to refer that area of existence over which I exert a certain amount of control or influence. In my case, the realm and action of dreaming. Delirium: Hump. It's more than that. The things we do make echoes. S'pose, f'rinstance, you stop on a street corner and admire a brilliant fork of lightning--ZAP! Well for ages after people and things will stop on that very same corner, stare up at the sky. They wouldn't even know what they were looking for. Some of them might see a ghost bolt of lightning in the street. Some of them might even be killed by it. Our existence deforms the universe. THAT'S responsibility.

Neil Gaiman

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Marguerite Young

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I was standing all alone against the world outside. You were searching for a place to hide. Lost and lonely, now you've given me the will to survive. When we're hungry, Love will keep us alive.

The Eagles

I'm very open to dating and finding a guy.

Kristin Cavallari

For anyone who feels lost in their own way, going back to who you are and what you love or moving forward to whoever you are meant to be or meant to love, is the purpose of being lost. We lose ourselves, so we can find out who we truly are. And when by fate we do, we discover the best version of ourselves.

Joanne Crisner

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Livy