Free I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Maya Angelou - My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Wilfred Peterson - Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new gri

Nikki Schiefelbein - It's hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.

Spike Milligan - As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

DeAnna Anderson — “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.”

Robert Benchley - It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman - March 15th is the most important day of the year. It's my birthday.

Stephen Graham Jones-Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Parker Conrad - Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.

James Hetfield - I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Kyrie Irving - One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Kay Redfield Jamison - In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Friedrich Nietzsche - ”There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Anne Lamott - Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America.

Sian Clifford - Every single one of my girlfriends who's had a big breakup has gone and done some kind of makeover, including myself.

Bob Ehrlich - Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Christopher Hitchens - I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Oscar Wilde- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Cornelius Vanderbilt - If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Logic - I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Harriet Tubman - I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.