Leave the cage open. If you love someone, give them a chance to leave. You can always lock them up again should they return to you.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

David Feherty

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Robert K. Mueller

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Abraham Lincoln

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Amber Riley

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Jonathan Shapiro

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

W. H. Auden

This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!

Victor Hugo

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Marc Jacobs

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Cat Stevens

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson