Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Jessie B. Fremont

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Charles de Montesquieu

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

Cassandra Clare

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Albert Einstein

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

Christopher Hitchens

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Oscar Wilde

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

John Biddle

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Frank A. Clark

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Lee Ritenour

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

will.i.am