I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.

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

Henry Ford

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl

The Secret to saneful living is in the Key between these two worlds. In order to serve the higher ideal, one must revert to serving the Spark within all the multiplicities herein conceivable in the apparent world. The spark in itself is not contained for it encompasses both realities, that of the inner, and the apparent

AainaA-Ridtz A R

Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, Now, let's write a swimming pool.

Paul McCartney

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.

Chinese Proverb

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Harold S. Geneen

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

Caroline Wozniacki

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin Jr.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell