Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

Martha Plimpton

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

Josephine Hull

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

Stephen King

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Anton Chekhov

I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

John Green

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

Donna Shalala

Sunlight is painting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Lord Chesterfield

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Irene Peter

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb