Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Jane Austen

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!

Dr. Seuss

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

Jane Austen

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

Deborah Bull

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

John Naisbitt

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

Ian Botham

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

Patina Miller

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Sean Connery

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift