The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Alanis Morissette

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Benjamin Franklin

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Knute Rockne

You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.

Derek Walcott

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

Ray Stannard Baker

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

Cameron Dokey

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Orison Swett Marden

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

Annie Lennox

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

J.K. Rowling

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

Oscar Levant