"When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good."

“The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality-who will press toward his object while death is impending over him-who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 239, 1895.

“Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.”

“Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.”

Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

“I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.”

“You lose your way when you lose your why.”

“Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.”

Source : Commencement Address at Iona College on June 03, 1984. "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”

Source : Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.452, Open Road Media