The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Thomas Carlyle

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

Josh Radnor

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

Emeril Lagasse

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

Source Unknown

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Lily Tomlin

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

Alan Watts

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Stephen King

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Criss Jami

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Thomas Fuller