When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Maurice Sendak

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

Aldous Huxley

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

Linda Evans

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Bobby Vinton

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Robert Orben

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

T-Bone Burnett

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Stephen Richards

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Alison Lurie

Tis after death that we measure men.

James Barron Hope