"Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block."

“Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.”

Source : Jillian Michaels (2013). “Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss”, p.3, Harmony

“You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself”

Source : Ervin Seale (1966). “Learn to Live: The Meaning of the Parables”, Devorss & Company

“Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.”

“The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.”

“America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.”

“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”

“There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.”

“I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.”