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Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.

I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Minutes later, below them loomed Nine Mile Hill. Look at that! Not one musher. It stood like a symbol of the struggle ahead. Jack knew what Tom was thinking. It was a long, hard trail.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.

I am a lawyer and 22 years the mayor of Davao City. I served as congressman of the first district for one term, and I was vice mayor to my daughter, Inday.

All my records - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston,' 'Rhinestone Cowboy,' 'Dreams of the Everyday Housewife' - they all had strings on them.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.