Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

William Congreve

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Gustave Flaubert

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,By self-example mayst thou be denied.

William Shakespeare

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to full what temptation means.

C.S. Lewis

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

Jessica Simpson

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

LaoTzu

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

Amanda Beard

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Donald Miller

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Carl Sandburg