Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

Giada De Laurentiis

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good".

Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of H

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Sri Aurobindo

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Desiderius Erasmus

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

Charles Horton Cooley

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Mahalia Jackson

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You know, there were major problems in my marriage.

Hulk Hogan

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Marco Rubio

I always advise people never to give advice.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Stephenie Meyer