The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection Are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

Source Unknown

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

Rebecca Falls

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Albert Einstein

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Blaise Pascal

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lord Edward Lytton

The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

Ryan Giggs

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

George Eliot