"The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line."

“I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!”

“Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: ‘Faster!’ He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.”

“My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I hope people will think very carefully about the future,”

Source : "Queen hopes Scottish independence voters will 'think carefully about future'" by Nicholas Watt, Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2014.

“It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.”

“We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.”

Source : "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.