Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

William Hazlitt

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

Abraham Lincoln

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

Millicent Fawcett

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Conor Oberst

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

John Tesh

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Cher

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

Rosie O'Donnell

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

J. A. Dever