If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? ― Steven Wright

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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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Character, not circumstance, makes the person. ― Booker T. Washington

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A person hears only what they understand. ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

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I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals. -Megan Thee Stallion

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Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive. ― Jackie Sigmund

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I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

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