"The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come."

“Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.”

Source : 1986 Of Christopher Isherwood. In the New Republic, 4 Nov.

“It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.”

Source : Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

“Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.”

“I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.”

Source : "Sherri Shepherd And Elise Neal Launch Hair Extension Collections, Plus Their Most Fabulous Hairstyles" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

“For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.”

“Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.”

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”

“In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]”