My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

J. August Strindberg

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Francis Bacon

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Gautama Buddha

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Rick Santelli

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Evelyn Ashford

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Margaret Sackville

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

Josh Henderson

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia

Tom Hanks

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Dirk Wittenborn