Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet
And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.
If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.
We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.
My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
The backbone of success is. . . hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.