If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all... view

By: Gretchen Wilson

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I never told a joke in my life... view

By: Andy Kaufman

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I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism... view

By: Robert Vaughn

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Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life... view

By: Jeanne Calment

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In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them... view

By: Colleen Atwood

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He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life... view

By: Robert Redford

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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements... view

By: Doug Coupland

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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat... view

By: Alphonso Jackson

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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together... view

By: Alvar Aalto

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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life... view

By: Jack Herer

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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life... view

By: Sogyal Rinpoche

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The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him.. view

By: Henry L. Stimson

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