You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

Daryl Hall

Omnia Cellula e Cellula

John Green

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

William Law

I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.

Masaharu Morimoto

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Maurice Blanchot

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth

Albert Einstein

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Rudolph Valentino

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

Vanessa Paradis

BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!

Steve Maraboli

Necessity unites.

Proverb

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.

Sharon M. Draper