"When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life."

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”

Source : "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

“Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

“My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.”

“When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.”

“The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.”

“The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.”

“Transparency and detail are everything in science.”

“the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.72, Clear Press Ltd