When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

The fact is, many people do not know how treat themselves and are experts at putting themselves down. In fact, if most of us were in a relationship with ourselves, we would break up with us, given how badly we treat ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

Don't forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

Robert Collier

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

John Bytheway

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

Edward Norton

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

Mariska Hargitay

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

Jung Chang

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Carroll

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Bill Frist

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Chaka Khan

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Edward Tufte

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Gerhard Kocher