My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Bill Cosby

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Zig Ziglar

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sir John Denham

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

Jennifer Saunders

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

John Hawkes

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

Joe Nichols

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Peter Agre

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

John Olver

He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 18:9

Bible

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.

Coleman Cox