I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Marie Chapian

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Ibn Gabirol

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

Denise Van Outen

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

M Scott Peck

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Lovers should also have their days off.

Natalie Clifford Barney

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage,Which God and nature do with actors fill

John Heywood

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Brooke Foss Westcott

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Jodi Picoult

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.

Abraham Lincoln