History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Lady Gaga

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Robert Mugabe

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Anne Michaels

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Nancy Kerrigan

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Amy Sedaris

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Mark Hoppus

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

Henning Mankell