In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Etta James

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Oswald Chambers

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.

Nick Nolte

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wallace D. Wattles

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Guard

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

Melinda Gates

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

Eddie Vedder

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Evander Holyfield

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Samuel Johnson

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

George MacDonald

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Jerry Bruckheimer