And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

Jason Aldean

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Justin Long

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

Jonathan Winters

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Dan Savage

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.

Jason Ritter

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Kinky Friedman

This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Charles Montesquieu

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

Jim Clyburn

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Richard Ford

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine