Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl Buck

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Bill Moyers

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Terry Pratchett

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

Jane Siberry

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

King Hussein I

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

Vince Neil

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

Rene Russo