I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

James A. Lovell

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Fay Wray

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

Suzanne Vega

I just want to make people smile.

Julie Garwood

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

Nicki Minaj

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Plato

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Orson Scott Card

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

Gustavo Dudamel

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Jon Hamm

What I took away from reading the Snowden documents was that if the NSA wants in to your computer, it's in. Period.

Bruce Schneier

My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

Rae Dawn Chong