Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Phillips Brooks

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

William Blake

Determination that just won't quit -- that's what it takes.

A. J. Foyt

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning

Samuel Johnson

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Horst Koehler

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Mary Cheney

It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986)

Ronald Reagan

One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is always there. The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and in everyone. Where does the mango stop and the sky begin?

Joshua Kadison

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

H. L. Mencken