I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

Gary Allan

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

Abu Bakr

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Venus Williams

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Don Rickles

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

Timothy M. Brenner

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Tammy Wynette

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Mo Udall

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

I. F. Stone

Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

Albert Camus

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Robin Morgan