I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

Suze Orman

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.

Emily Procter

Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Barbara Deming

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

Joan Rivers

Support people, not corporations.

David Watanabe

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

She's still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.-Seven Chillman, classmate

Laura Ruby

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

Paul Ambroise Valery

Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

William Arthur Ward