So what? who cares what others think? It's your life, not their's. So get up, get out, and live your life the way you want to. We only live once.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

Barry Hannah

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Anne Lamott

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Orson Scott Card

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet.

Edwin Moses

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

Paul O'Grady

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.

Christopher Hitchens

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Michel de Montaigne