When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

Montel Williams

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Mike Mills

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Joseph Jefferson

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard

Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.

Brian Klemmer

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The world is beautiful if you are beautiful.

Theodore H. White

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Jenna Bush

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche