Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Henry Giles

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Bruce Weber

My lowest days as a Christian and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

No matter how big or soft or warm your beds is, you still have to get out of it.

Grace Slick

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

Luke Bryan

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Thomas Jefferson

How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery it is that nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother. In spite of death, the mark and seal of the parental control, man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticize, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is aquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

Bertrand Russell

Ere to sleepThou liest down, prepare to guard thy life--A man is friendless in the hour of trial. . . .I to the needy gave, the orphan nourished,Esteemed alike the lowly and the great;But he who ate my bread made insurrection,And those my hands raised up, occasion seizedRebellion to create. . . . They went aboutAll uniformed in garments that I gaveAnd deemed me but a shadow. . . . Those who sharedMy perfumes for anointment, rose betimesAnd broke into my harem.

The Instruction of Amenemhet

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Jean Cocteau

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Roy Rogers