The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Muhammad Ali

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Mark Twain

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

James Taylor

Truth will triumph. It always does. However, I figure truth is a variable, so we're right back where we started from.

Lewis Padgett

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

Lara St. John

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Marilyn Monroe

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Edmund Burke

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

Raymond Williams

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

Bo Jackson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson