Freedom comes with a price while bondage takes hold without notice

I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

I kept running until someone saw the chase and hid me inside their house.

Words without warmth are dead words.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown