I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
Sue Townsend
I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.
My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good... →
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
Pete Townshend
I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this... →
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal... →
Arnold J. Toynbee
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be... →
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When... →
Polly Toynbee
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and... →
Aiden Wilson Tozer