"Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character."

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."

"We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives."

"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."

"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"

"I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip."

"I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was."