Patrick O'Brian Quote

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Education is the best provision for old age.

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.