I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry.

Loretta Lynn

Each is responsible for his own actions.

H. L. Hunt

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Robert G. Ingersoll

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Joseph De Maistre

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Ruth Benedict

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Benjamin Franklin

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Bonnie Raitt

If you perceive yourself in a negative manner then success is next to impossible.

Steve Maraboli

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Erykah Badu

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Tom Daschle

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore