No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

Homo homini monstrum

Victor Hugo

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth, from Preface

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

William Strong

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

Cat Agonis

Be that self which one truly is.

Soren Kierkegaard

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Edward F. Halifax

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively

Voltaire

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

Mira Grant

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

Kristin Armstrong

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Jeff Bezos