Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.