Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I have my own strength.

Nina Hagen

Jubal, the face said, I am thy loved Past, The soul that makes thee one from first to last. I am the angel of thy life and death, Thy outbreathed being drawing its last breath. Am I not thine alone, a dear dead bride Who blest thy lot above all men's beside?

George Eliot

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

Orison Swett Marden

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Lord Dunsany

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

H.L. Mencken

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

Michael J. Fox

You get fat in the moments between when you know you should stop and when you do.

Michael Lipsey

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Neale Donald Walsch

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Russell Crowe

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill