Where liberty is, there is my country.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Charles A. Garfield

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

Gabrielle Union

I think we're here for each other.

Carol Burnett

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

Shaun White

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower

The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer.

Joyce Cary

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Peter DeFazio

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

Plato

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

C.S. Lewis

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert