The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Oliver Goldsmith

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

Amy Poehler

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Denzel Washington

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

James Grant

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Susan Sontag

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...

Victor Hugo

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Ambrose Bierce

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Arthur Scargill

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Mark Mothersbaugh

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge