Marilyn Monroe

 I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. 

- Marilyn Monroe

Heidi Klum

 I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. 

- Heidi Klum

Jackie Kennedy

 If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. 

- Jackie Kennedy

Maya Angelou

 When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. 

- Maya Angelou

Walter Winchell

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. 

- Walter Winchell

John Archibald Wheeler

 Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. 

- John Archibald Wheeler

Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. 

- Plato

Keanu Reeves

 Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. 

- Keanu Reeves

Wayne Dyer

 How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. 

- Wayne Dyer

Bil Keane

 Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. 

- Bil Keane

John F. Kennedy

 Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. 

- John F. Kennedy

Frederick Douglass

 It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. 

- Frederick Douglass

Bruce Lee

 Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. 

- Bruce Lee

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. 

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Epicurus

 Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. 

- Epicurus

William Osler

 The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. 

- William Osler

Jean Baudrillard

 A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. 

- Jean Baudrillard

Clive James

 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. 

- Clive James

Johnny Cash

 You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. 

- Johnny Cash

Steven Wright

 Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. 

- Steven Wright

Albert Einstein

 Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. 

- Albert Einstein

Walter Anderson

 Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. 

- Walter Anderson

Ann Landers

 Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. 

- Ann Landers

Heraclitus

 No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. 

- Heraclitus

Milton Berle

 Laughter is an instant vacation. 

- Milton Berle

Auguste Rodin

 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. 

- Auguste Rodin

Oscar Wilde

 Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. 

- Oscar Wilde

Robin Williams

 You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. 

- Robin Williams

Groucho Marx

 Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. 

- Groucho Marx

Aristotle Onassis

 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. 

- Aristotle Onassis

Mark Twain

 The lack of money is the root of all evil. 

- Mark Twain