But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

...eaven for climate, Hell for society.

Mark Twain

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

Rick Springfield

THOSE WHO THINK PEOPLE ARE STUPID ARE THE ONES THAT ARE STUPID.

DAWN STUCK

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

Source Unknown

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

Robert Bork

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein