No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

David Bowie

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

Katie Holmes

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

John Ratzenberger

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Og Mandino

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

John Wooden

If you can't convince them; confuse them.

Harry S Truman

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Leo Tolstoy

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Goran Persson

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Victor Hugo