"It is not observed in history that families improve with time."

-- George William Curtis

“My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“If you try to do your best there is no failure.”
“I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'”
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”

Source : John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press
“There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.”

Source : "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.
“I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, heâ€™ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.”
“Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.”
“The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.”

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