If you write the word monkey a million times, do you start tothink you're Shakespeare?

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marlo Thomas

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

David Elkind

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Dave Freudenthal

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Joan of Arc

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

Ron Wyden

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

John le Carre