Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

Terri Clark

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Edward Gibbon

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Arnold Bennett

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Joseph De Maistre

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

Shia LaBeouf

Poetry is the language of feeling.

W. Winter

My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

John Lennon, Quoted in: Beatles

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

I.B. Opene

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley