It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71

If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.

Steve Maraboli

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.

Bret Harte

I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five.

Mick Jagger

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Albert Einstein

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Al Pacino

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

P. J. Harvey

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Chuck Colson

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Gianni Versace

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Desmond Tutu