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- Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.
- Colby Dorr Dam
- Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
- Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
- The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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