Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Young Jeezy

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

Madonna Ciccone

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

Alan Ladd

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

Jerry Saltz

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maxwell Maltz

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

...and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Khaled Hosseini

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Epil

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder

And life doesn't want me To just let it me that the I met,The That I fell so forShould only come in Life Life is trying to neThat the I The girl I fellSo for?There's room for her in I'm putting first.

Colleen Hoover