My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Michael Shannon

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

Blake Shelton

Heaven is at the feet of Mothers.

Arabic Proverb

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Mick Jagger

The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

Alymer Letterman

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Too much truth is uncouth.

Franklin P. Adams