July 10 Birthdays

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers, but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood, your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I want to be a diva...like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around.

Its a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain, the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I dont regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and thats why I am here.

The catch phrase for the day is Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We arent afraid to show that off a little bit more.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprized I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.