I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Gustav Klimt

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Robert Morgan

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Stephen Hunter

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

Michael W. Smith

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

Deepa Bhushan

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Albert Einstein

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

R. Venning