A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.