A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Albert Einstein

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

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It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Charlaine Harris

Charity is the scope of all God's commands.

St. John Chrysosatom

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

Craig Ferguson

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.

Sir William Hamilton

People who try to force circumstances become their slaves.

Leo Tolstoy

But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.

Kazuo Ishiguro

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

Kathleen Kennedy

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe