It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Christine Baranski

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

George Eliot

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

Roger Federer

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kevin Kline

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

Tori Amos

Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.

Benjamin Franklin

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

Jason Mraz

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer