When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Paulo Coelho

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

LinChi

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

William Shakespeare

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gene Tierney

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Chris Christie

Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.

Michael John Carley

We are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

David E. Kelley

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Oscar Wilde

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens