I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Fritz Reiner

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I cook all my meals at home.

Jennifer Hudson

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Richard Milhous Nixon

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

John Heywood

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I never pursued being 'famous.'

Francesca Annis

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Casey Kasum

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Paulo Coelho

Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

J. C. Macaulay

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle