“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker T. Washington

“There’s ageism in everything. I don’t give a hoot. It isn’t what other people think; it’s what you think. But it’s hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.”

— Cyndi Lauper

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

— Dr. Seuss

“The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That’s why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.”

— Diane von Furstenberg

“Hopefully I’ll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.”

— Freddy Fender

“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”

— Golda Meir

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

— Immanuel Kant

“I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.”

— Paul Walker

“As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated.”

— Gloria Estefan

“Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn’t work, and it annoys the pig.”

— Judy Sheindlin

“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”

— Humphrey Bogart

“The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.”

— Kobe Bryant

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.”

— Edith Head

“Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.”

— Alan Shepard

“This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design’s sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots — I design for customers.”

— Giorgio Armani

“I think that we’re reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don’t even want to pick up a telephone to talk — we just text.”

— LaTanya Richardson Jackson

“Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.”

— Michael Madsen

“Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.”

— Red Cloud

“I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn’t pick me to play baseball.”

— Scott Hamilton

“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?”

— Sophocles

“By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don’t really have much time left to do anything else.”

— Tanya Tucker

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

— Victor Hugo

“Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.”

— P. J. O’Rouke