It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

Barbara Marciniak

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

Casper Van Dien

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Wilfred Owen

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.

Euripides

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Steve Maraboli

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Kathryn Bigelow

Use your hater to make you greater!

Habeeb Akande

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Larry Craig

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Francis Maude