If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Ramana Maharshi

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Remy de Gourmont

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Walt Disney

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

Johnny Winter

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Vera Farmiga

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

Christine McVie

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

George Sheehan

Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake.

K. Ford K.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Condoleezza Rice