When you are just living your mundane life just walking about or you are just sleeping and waking up and just chatting on the telephone and on social media

Without hardships, how could we find hope?

If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

As we get older, everyday feels longer, and although I know I’ll struggle, I will do my best to never get tired.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.