The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994
I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. Im not talking about acting or anything like that, Im talking about people I admire, whether its a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever. – Benicio Del Toro