A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. Bertrand Russell
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. George Eliot
If you like a person you say ‘let’s go into business together.’ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger. Brian Tracy
I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well. Dolly Parton
I’m not ever going to retire. That’s – that wouldn’t be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that’s not moi. Aretha Franklin
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. Saint Teresa of Avila
I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. Alice Walker