It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

There is the pain that made me cry, and then there is the strength that made me stop crying.So I am glad the pain camebecause without it I would not have discovered my strength.

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.

Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Even if you do not want to, One day you will look back through your life...the Question is, what are you going to see? How will your rate and direction of progress make you feel?

Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Stop making excuses and start doing what makes you profoundly happy!

I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.