"Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up."

“I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.”

“I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.”

“For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.”

Source : "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

“Our challenge is to unselfishly sacrifice all that we have been given, including our will. Elder Neal A. Maxwell rightly said: “The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’ … are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”

“You're free to join us, but only if you promise not to stare at the new kid." Miles laughs. "Staring is very rude. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?”

“I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.”

“I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.”

Source : "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.

“There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.”