Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.(translated 1951)

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil, Aeneid

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

Lance Bass

How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Garth Brooks

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

George Harrison

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

William Christopher Handy

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Mark Caine

It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Julia Roberts

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu