"Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?"

-- Amy Chua

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Insecurity Quotes

“Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.”
“I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.”

Source : "Zoë Saldana: The Most Elegant Member of the Glam New Guard". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2010.
“And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'”

Source : Speech in Charleston, South Carolina, April 14, 1865.
“I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.”
“Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.”
“Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”
“I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.”
“And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.”

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