• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

• Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

• Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it.

Quillen, Robert

• Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, arguments an exchange of ignorance.

Quindlen, Anna

• A finished person is a boring person. (in Writer's Digest)

• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ("Bookshelves" Thinking out Loud)

• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Quinn, Colin

• Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity--as long as you don't point out that people are different.

Quinn, Greg Henry

• Everyone should intend to do the right thing, but commitments should be made only when unconditional, single-minded dedication can be employed. Much disappointment is caused by the confusion of these two words. (365 Meditations for Teachers)

Quintana, Mario

• Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.

Quintillian, Marcus Fabius

• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Quinton, John

• Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.

Quivers, Robin

• There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.