You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.- A Tramp Abroad

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?