If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos (page: 193),

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Joni Mitchell

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

Freddie Mercury

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.

Daniel Handler

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

Lauren Hammond

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Cat Stevens

Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

Danica Patrick