Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

Tony Wilson

I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!

Orson Scott Card

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Vince Lombardi

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chris Christie

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

Our country is where ever we are well off.

John Milton

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Vivienne Westwood

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Louis Nizer