I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Brigitte Bardot

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Robert Collier

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Daryl Hall

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Dan Quayle

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rita Mae Brown

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie