Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi

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Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.

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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame. -B arry Humphries

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I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.- Donald Trump

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How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together! -Marsha P. Johnson

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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