Duke Ellington - The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Kavita Ramdas - We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can

Kimberly Elise - I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

Virgil - They succeed, because they think they can.

Richard Nelson Bolles - Not for nothing is their motto TGIF ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends when they can go do what they really want to do.

Nelson Mandela - People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Patty Duke - Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

Donald Glover - I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

Ron Chernow - I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Rainer Maria Rilke - A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Madonna - A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.

Dolly Parton - You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on

Malala Yousafzai - I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Kurt Elling - I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

Kwame Nkruma - Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Blaise Pascal - In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.