My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

Peter S. Beagle

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

Dierks Bentley

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Jon Hamm

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Edmund Burke

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Benjamin Franklin

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus, Punica

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Curtis Carlson

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

Elliott Erwitt