Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Anne Hutchinson

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Mary Lou Williams

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Edwin C. Bliss

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

William Shatner

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

Alanis Morissette

We the unwilling. <br>Led by the unqualified. <br>To kill the unfortunate. <br>Die for the ungrateful.

GI in Vietnam War

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

Terry Pratchett

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Jim Rohn

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

George C. Wallace