Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

The only things that need the protection of men are the things of men, not the things of the spirit.

American Indian Proverb, Crow

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Sarah Zettel

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

Nicki Minaj

LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love.

Lao Tzu

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Marcelene Cox

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

Josh Stern

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing

Martin Luther King Jr.

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Dick Sargent

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Christopher Walken

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Nelson Rodrigues

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Kurt Vonnegut