The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
Donald G. Mitchell
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Groucho Marx
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
Herschel Walker
If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
Bernie Mac