Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.

Kristen Ashley

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Isadora Duncan

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Susan Orlean

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

Julia Roberts

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Clay Aiken

No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

Plautus