It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

James Salter

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

Tom Vilsack

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Edward Blishen

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

John D. MacDonald

Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.

Daniel Webster

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

Sir John Mortimer

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Gerry Adams

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson