It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.

Charles Mackay

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Jim Capaldi

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

Vanessa Brown

As your lover describes you, so you are.

Jeanette Winterson

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Bo Lozoff

What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.

Orson Scott Card

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Jodi Picoult

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L.M. Montgomery

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

George Best

Regardless of which candidate each of us supported as individuals, the only way to move forward is to move forward together.

Tim Cook