No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

Jordin Sparks

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Abdul Kalam

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Mark Twain

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

Simon Greenleaf

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

B. R. Hayden

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Michael Bolton

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Max Beerbohm

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Bonnie Raitt

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Stephen King