“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”

— Agatha Christie

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

— Booker T. Washington

“My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.”

— Yves Saint Laurent

“I’ve always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn’t have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.”

— Chita Rivera

“I love doing ‘The Price is Right.’ It’s so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it’s not my money. It’s really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.”

— Drew Carey

“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”

— Eddie Van Halen

“I think music can heal your soul if you’ll let it. It can also bring you up if you’re down. It can also bring you down if you’re too up. It’s a mood thing.”

— Gretchen Wilson

“I’ve never been bashful to say that I’m not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it’s all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the states, I realized how much I loved being back in the states.”

— Danica Patrick

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

— Bruce Lee

“I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.”

— Helena Bonham Carter

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

— James Madison

“There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a mustache and so did he. But he was the No. 1 star in the world, so there wasn’t really much confusion.”

— Tom Selleck

“Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don’t want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I’m still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.”

— Toby Keith

“Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.”

— Laura Esquivel

“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.”

— Jackie Robinson

“It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.”

— Keanu Reeves

“People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don’t want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I’m not against them, but comfort is not my focus.”

— Christian Louboutin

“My mom was a teacher. I have the greatest respect for the profession. We need great teachers — not poor or mediocre ones.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.”

— Red Skelton