You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

Alan Jackson

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Whoopi Goldberg

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anna Lindh

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Julianna Baggott

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.

Gail Sheehy

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Christopher Meloni

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, There are no answers.

Ray Bradbury

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

Cassandra Clare