I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Frederick Smith

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Judith Viorst

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Giordano Bruno

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.

Victor Hugo

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Angelina Jolie

..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.

Daniel Black

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

George C. Marshall

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Amelia E. Barr

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Gore Vidal

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Paul Geraldy

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped.

Alexander Hamilton

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it

Maya Angelou