When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

William Shakespeare

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

Anthony LaPaglia

Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token of my cuteness. This story was often told (I expect that Yvonne and the Commander had been to an airport together perhaps three times in their lives) and always with a note of condescension. That was Americans for you: wanting to be friendly all right, but so loud, and inclined to flash the cash.

Christopher Hitchens

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

Marcel Duchamp

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Source Unknown

Better to be safe than sorry.

Proverb

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

Oscar Wilde

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa