It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Marcus Aurelius

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

Kelly Clarkson

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Jean Paul Richter

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

Eva Herzigova

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Malcolm Mclaren

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Martin Oppenheimer

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Mike Krzyzewski

Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

Chuang Tzu

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

John Mayer