I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love spicy food.

Cynthia Nixon

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him.

Ernest Hemingway

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Jennie Garth

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Jason Aldean

I'll break the spell or the science of her singing yet. As the only man left it devolves on me to do it.

R. A. Lafferty

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Jodi Picoult