I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Jon Ronson

When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world

Pope John Paul II, To 19,000 stu

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Anthony Kiedis

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Juan Goytisolo

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Source Unknown

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Johann von Goethe

The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.

Pittacus Lore

My cousins gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

Rodney Dangerfield

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

Evanescence

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Jodi Picoult