“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
“I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise.
All I've got to do is apply it.” - John Candy, actor
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” - George Santayana, philosopher
“Change is due to ‘want’ power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” - George A. Sheehan, writer
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”- Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet
“In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.” - Paul Davies, writer
“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.” - Benjamin Spock, scientist
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” - Woody Allen, Director