If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.
David Sedaris
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Robert Quillen
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce Meyer
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
Dolly Parton
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
James E. Faust