But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Martha Reeves

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

Benjamin Zander

Truth allows no choice

Samuel Johnson

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

Kamisese Mara

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

Markus Zusak

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.

George Bernard Shaw

When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you will know indeed that He transcends this universe.

Kabir

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

John Dewey

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Claudius

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Cassandra Clare