Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

The light of a whole life dies When love is gone.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it.

Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.