Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Shania Twain

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Marcel Proust

As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea, Though by the wind made restless as the wind, By billows fretted and by rocks confined, So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.

Francis William Bourdillon

It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.

Richelle E. Goodrich

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

Charlotte Featherstone

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

Hector Hugh Munro

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

Wm. Paul Young

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Sidney Poitier

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton