"'if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"I can say, 'I am terribly frightened, and fear is terrible and awful, and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it's uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky.' But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?" - Barbara Streisand
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses." -John Irving, The Cider House Rules
"Nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is." - Gone with the Wind
"You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves." - Terry Brooks