A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Mitch Albom

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.

Sylvia Ashton Warner

I demolish my bridges behind me, then there is no choice but to move forward.

Fridtjof Nansen

In leadership being gentle is being bold.

Lolly Daskal

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

The only menace is inertia.

St. John Perse

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Quincy Jones

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

William Ellery Channing

When intent and action mate, the offspring is success.

Steve Maraboli

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Tony Campolo

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

Lenny Kravitz