"I just don't think men fancy me."

“Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.”

Source : Charles Stewart Parnell (1892). “Words of the Dead Chief: Being Extracts from the Public Speeches and Pronouncements of Charles Stewart Parnell, from the Beginning to the Close of His Memorable Life”

“Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”

“It helps to even look in the mirror - and it sounds so cheesy - but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you.”

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

Source : "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.”

“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”

“Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...”

Source : Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97

“Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart”