"People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they..."
- Katja Millay
"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."
- Roy T. Bennett
"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."
- Steve Maraboli
"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion
"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same."
"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is..."
- David McCullough
"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."
- Derek Landy
"Never compromise your values."
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
- Toni Morrison