Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Denis Waitley

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

Anne Tyler

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Shirley MacLaine

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

Neale Donald Walsch

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world

Taylor Caldwell, On Growing Up T

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Snoop Dogg

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Kenny Loggins

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Jean Paul Richter