I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.

Bhagavad Gita

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Paulo Coelho

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

Pat Travers

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Harriet Tubman

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

Robert Bianco

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

Barbara Mandrell

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean Genet