The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

Vince Gill

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

Sun Tzu

I love working in the theater.

Didi Conn

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Harriet Tubman

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

Source Unknown

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

Mary Stuart Masterson

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.

Mary Karr

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman