Recognition is the greatest motivator.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Charles Dickens

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Jodi Picoult

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

Harry Connick, Jr.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Victoria Beckham

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Tibor Kalman

As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

Pierre Nanterme

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

Source Unknown

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Paul Bryant

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.

Jodi Picoult