Do something for yourself today that you will thank yourself for tomorrow.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan [for 2011].

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.