All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Saint Francis de Sales

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Peter Robert Fleming

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Source Unknown

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Henry David Thoreau

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Jane Fonda

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

Max Frisch

I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

Brooke Burns

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

Neil Diamond

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Adam Levine