I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

Ellie Goulding

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Wentworth Miller

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Courteney Cox

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

Queen Latifah

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Job 12:12

Bible

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Bertrand Russell

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Carter G. Woodson

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

Blake Shelton