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- Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.
- American Heart Association Cookbook
- Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
- Arthur Brisbane
- Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
- Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)
- The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
- The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
- Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
- You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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