The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

Sherri Shepherd

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Wylie

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Jason Mraz

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey

Arab Proverb

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Eric Hoffer

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Abbas Kiarostami

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Anthony Holden

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

William Shakespeare

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

George Lopez

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes