One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Jodi Picoult

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Schuyler Colfax

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Roger Caras

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English Proverb

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Karel Capek

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Sharon Stone

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Thomas Sowell

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Peter Tork

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Ricky Martin

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

William C. Menninger