How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

C.S. Lewis

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine

How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.

Steve Maraboli

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

Dinaw Mengestu

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Pat Riley

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Sandra Chami Kassis

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

Adam Lambert

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alan Dundes

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Eddie Van Halen

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Melissa Etheridge

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Sir Winston Churchill