And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C.S. Lewis

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Sean Connery

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

Mark Twain

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Isadora Duncan

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

George Eliot

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Dyan Cannon

If we want to know what happiness is we must seek it, not as if it were a part of gold at the end of the rainbow, but among human beings who are living richly and fully the good life. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double Dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar gold button that has rolled under the cupboard in his bed room. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living 24 crowded hours of the day. If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen. If your ambition has the momentum of an express train at full speed, if you can no longer stop your mad rush for glory, power, or intellectual supremacy, try to divert your energies into socially useful channels before it is too late.For those who seek the larger happiness and greater effectiveness open to human beings there can be but one philosophy of life, a philosophy of constructive altruism. The truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity. The good life demands a working philosophy as an orientating map of conduct. This is the golden way of life. This is the satisfying life. This is the way to be happy though human.

W. Beran Wolfe, 'How To Be Happy

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

Mickey Gilley