"When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure."

-- Tom Waits

“Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.”

Source : Dr. Kevin Leman (2013). “Have a New Kid By Friday Participant's Guide: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days (A Six-Session Study)”, Baker Books
“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”

Source : Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.48, Anchor
“I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.”
“I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”
“There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.”
“Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.”

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