I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

Norodom Sihamoni

This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see

Friedrich Nietzsche

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Ethel Waters

Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

Steve Maraboli

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Baruch Spinoza

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Samuel Johnson

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

Benjamin Franklin

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful 1 Thessalonians 5:16

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I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Dolly Parton

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

Barry White