Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going. Bill Walton
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic. Robert Crais
My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there. Terrell Davis
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Wilma Rudolph
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Mark Twain
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. Jonathan Carroll
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha. Daniel Everett
One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives. Lex Luger
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. Greg Anderson
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. Wade Boggs
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. Polly Berrien Berends
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. James A.Baldwin
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. John Zimmerman
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. Charles Bukowski
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen keller