Auntie Mame Birthday Quotes & Sayings

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. — Chin-Ning Chu

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way? — William Gaddis

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense. — Maria Bartiromo

There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth. — Fulton J. Sheen

I was unlovable in his eyes and so therefore I was unlovable in my own eyes. — J.R. Rain

Knock upon yourself as upon a door, and when the door opens an answer can be found. — Richard Zimler

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more. — Marvin Bell

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich

They were all staring at him now, the way dumb shits sometimes did when you surprised them. — Scott Hawkins

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate. — James McGreevey

Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside. — Shakti Gawain

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them! — Benito Mussolini

Certainly one of the most important things I learned is that numbers can be deceiving. There is a logic to mathematics, but there is also the underlying human element that must be considered. Numbers can't lie, but the people who create those numbers can and do. As so many people have learned, forgetting to include human nature in an equation can be devastating. — Harry Markopolos

With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession. — Sherrod Brown

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member. — Aristotle.