To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Vince Gill

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

W. C. Fields

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible.

Anon., also called: Cadet Maxim

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Anne Hathaway

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

Michael Hutchence

The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.

J.R. Ward

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One chance is all you need.

Jesse Owens

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

George Bernard Shaw

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden