Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Elbert Hubbard

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Brian Tracy

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

Shannon Dermott

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do .

Edward W. Howe

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Ou

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Samuel Johnson, Letter to Bennet

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

Jackie Mason

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

Leo Tolstoy

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Stephen King

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Roberto Cavalli

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld