Anything - Quotes
If motherhood has taught me anything, it is that I cannot change my children, I can only change myself. Try as I might, I can’t shape either one of them to my desires or designs, but I can choose, moment by moment and day by day, my own reaction to who they are. So perhaps my real job now, and in the year ahead, isn’t to direct my sons’ lives, but to work on becoming more thoughtful and deliberate about my own.
I love you, Mother, more than anything in my life. I have nothing to give you to thank you because there is nothing that I can give you that can best express my gratitude equivalent to what you have done to me from giving birth to me and taking care of me.
A boy who won`t stand up for himself becomes a man who can`t stand up to anything.
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
I`m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn`t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Where is this love? I can`t see it, I can`t touch it. I can`t feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can`t do anything with your easy words.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
If the sand has drained out for someone, don`t hold him back, because you can`t give him anything to replace life. [...] To love, you have to know how to kill, too.