“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.”

— Yo-Yo Ma

“If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name — if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.”

— Zebulon Pike

“In some areas I am more noted for reading than I am for cookies!”

— Wally Amos

“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

“The thing about Uggs is that they’re so comfortable. Once you’ve worn them, you don’t want to go back.”

— Tamara Mellon

“I’m not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.”

— Steve McQueen

“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity — all I hope for in my clothes.”

— Yves Saint Laurent

“Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.”

— Saint Ignatius

“I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, ‘Baby, you don’t seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'”

— Kid Rock

“Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.”

— Paige Spiranac

“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.”

— Nelson Mandela

“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

— Thomas Sowell

“I don’t exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”

— Joan Rivers

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

— Aristotle

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

— Coco Chanel

“It seems kind of silly, but it’s really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.”

— Lindsey Vonn

“It sounds like a cliche, but … you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.”

— Kenny Chesney

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

— Isaac Asimov

“I don’t really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I’m in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.”

— Selena Gomez

“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”

— Henri Matisse

“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”

— Jim Lovell

“I’m kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I’d have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. ‘Don’t do that, super-fellow!'”

— Eddie Murphy

“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.”

— Will Rogers