Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
et me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
A leader is someone who compels others to positive action by the power of their own positive action.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.